Well, we are going to take the Misty Lady (currently the Roving Retreat) out for the second attempt at a sea trial. The other items for the survey of our soon to be sea going home, are duly recorded and I have my pick list to ensure that we miss nothing prior to her commissioning as the Misty Lady.
We will gather at the marina where the vessel is currently berthed and after a short planning session will board the boat for the sea trial. This time the boat will have my 1st Mate, Charlotte on board. She was in Nashville at a meeting the last time. My son and his family are also going to try to be aboard when we take her out for the trials.
Once the sea trial is completed, we will begin to lay in the supplies, tools and scheduled workers to put her right for our acceptance into the Capital Yacht Club.
Keep your fingers crossed for us that all goes well. Our condo is on the market and we have had one expression of interest so far. Once the condo has been sold, we will bring the yacht down to Washington and begin our life as “cruisers” aboard this super neat vessel.
Both Charlotte and I will also be going back to school. We have to pass a test for a Boating Safety Certification before we are allowed to ply the waters of the Washington DC area. We also will be taking additional course on ship handling, navigation, and other yachting related courses. Many of these I had taken in the past, but after so many years, a refresher course of study is certainly warranted.
Looking forward to the next entry in this log, when I talk about the sea trial and perhaps post photos from the voyage.
Author: harv1941
Just a summary, I am 84 years of age, retired in July 2013 and settled down to promoting the dangers of bacterial meningitis, which killed my beloved son, Mike in 2009. My wife, Charlotte, and I embarked on an adventure of live aboard cruising, aboard a large Blue Water motor yacht. While our beginning was rather fraught with hurdles, we continued to look forward to the day we moved aboard the Misty Lady and cruise the eastern seaboard and associated waterways. After more than four years of life aboard this Bluewater Motor Yacht, I developed an advanced problem due to interaction with medications and experienced rather frightening balance problems. Therefore, getting on and off the yacht was fraught with danger of falling between the docks and the boat's hull. Walking the docks was also problematic considering that our yacht club docks were all floating docks and my balance problem was a danger during the walk from our yacht's docking slip to the clubhouse or out to the DC Wharf facilities and our car housed in the yacht club's reserved garage. SO, we had to regretfully put the Misty Lady up for sale and move back on shore. We moved on shore, first into a condo apartment in Alexandria, then after two years there, we relocated to the city of Newport News, in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Our original desired location was in the city of Hampton, Virginia, which is the oldest English-speaking settlement in the United States having been established originally in 1610. My ancestors came to this country through this settlement in the mid 1600s and lived in that area for around 100 years before beginning a migration of one portion of our family toward the west.
I looked forward to moving back to this area and exploring the roots of my family, both maternal and paternal ancestry, but we found a great house in the Newport News area and became ensconced in the terrific neighborhood of Kiln Creek. My wife, being still actively employed, received a substantial offer in a position with a government contractor firm back up in Northern Virginia. So we put the Newport News house up for sale, receiving and accepting an offer withing two days. We then relocated back up to the city of Alexandria and into another high rise condo. My wife reached a point where considerations for retirement were becoming very important. She indicated that she really didn't want to retire in Alexandria, so once again we began a house search in the Tidewater area, this time in the City of Williamsburg and in a community restricted to 55+ age owners. We found the ideal location, initiated the sale and closing for our retirement home. We then put our condo on the market. Alas, the market was not as robust as before so we had to change asking price a couple of time, but finally the Alexandria Condo was sold. Now we are set to enjoy the great locations found here in the Tidewater/Hampton Roads area, considering that we are history buffs and there are literally hundreds of historical sites in this segment of our nation. Of course living in Williamsburg is the epitome of history living life.
So, now we are in our retirement home, in a great retirement type community. A great clubhouse with a fine dining restaurant, a grill/pub, an award winning PGA designed golf course and miles of walking trails. Looking forward to my wife's eventual full retirement and the two of us visiting all up and down the east coast historical spots.
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