Flags

When you travel to foreign countries, once you've cleared their customs department, you are supposed to raise the flag of that country on your boat (This is called a courtesy flag and is flown from the starboard spreader). We purchased a bunch of flags and I came home last night to this display up our driveway at home. I laughed so hard. Someone is ready to do some traveling. 

Honey, I just drilled a hole through the hull.

I'm sure those words were not what she wanted to hear.  Nevertheless, I had made a dumb mistake and I wasn't going to make another one by not telling her about it.  Fortunately for us, the new hole was above the waterline and didn't threaten to sink our new home.  However, it cost us $50 and a couple hours filling the hole, sanding the filler, and replacing the gelcoat.  In my defense, punching holes through the hull of a boat is not uncommon.  It's just better if you do it on purpose.

Introductions

About 6 months ago we brought our Hunter 410 down from Deltaville, VA to Charleston, SC and began the major task of outfitting the boat for Caribbean cruising.  We want to share all the details of our preparations for the trip, but it's a little difficult beginning a blog after we've already done a lot of the work.  The initial posts may seem a little random as we try to "catch up" to present day.

Probably like many couples, we realize that each of us thinks in a different way, but that both of us have something to contribute to the blog.  Rather than intermingle our musings, we came up with the idea last night of having separate pages within the blog.  Daniel, with a dominant left-brain tendency, will speak tech-talk on the "Port" page while Carla, with a dominant right-brain tendency, will be the creative one on the "Starboard" page.