Where WAS Brick House...The First Eight Years

Sorry about the long gap in writing!

We have been very busy installing new SeaFrost Refridgeration, Painting the interior of our water tanks to try to extend their lives, and buying spares for everything from lightbulbs to pressure cooker gaskets! I put a lot of new parts on the stove/Oven and it looks like we are going to be able to survive with that stove for a while. Keeping our fingers crossed for the oven part of the stove....no parts are made for it anymore!

We are heading out on Friday morning hopefully, to sail to Block Island and give the boat a good shakedown cruise... See what breaks so we know what we can have fun fixing next!

We went sailing last weekend to have some pictures taken for Blue Water Sailing, and enjoyed a great spinnaker sail up the entire Sakonnet River, and shook up the tanks pretty well out inthe ocean to see Patrick Fuel cleaning system work really well capturing some water and gunk from the fuel tanks.

We are getting a new HUGE manual bilge pump from Edson delivered today, so Patrick has one more thing on his list to do, and I am still working to make this radio have less interference, and longer range for updating this web site, sending emails, etc...as well as developing a list of nets to listen and check in on as we go through our travels. The days are long and fun! We work from 8am to about 8pm every single day...the days fly and we love it!

We are looking in to getting a new Genoa Sail made for us, but besides that, we do see the light at the end of the tunnel I think.

ONE A SEPARATE VERY IMPORTANT NOTE:

Prayers go out to our friend Bruce in Massachusetts. He was doing work for Habitat for Humanity in Phonenix Arizona about 3 weeks ago. He was mugged, robbed, and tied up in his hotel room, and was undiscovered for 20 hours! When they found him he had to have his left hand amputated, and they are still working to save his right hand. His wife knew something was wrong when she hadnt gotten her nightly call from him, so she started calling hospitals in Phoenix until she found him. How horrible of an event to happen. It makes me realize how lucky I am, and how small my daily problems really are. Please pray for him...

Vessel Name:	Brick House
Vessel Make/Model:	Valiant 40 #134
Hailing Port:	Middletown, RI USA
Crew:	Patrick and Rebecca Childress
Extra:	Patrick completed a solo-circumnavigation on Juggernaut, a Catalina 27 in his younger days. He has been published in most U.S. and many foreign sailing magazines, for both his writing and photography. He co-authored a book titled "The Cruising Guide to Narragansett Bay and the South Coast of [...] Massachusetts". He holds his 500 Ton Masters Captains License, and is an active delivery captain and instructor. Ham license is a General. Patrick owned a home improvement business in Newport, RI but retired in June 2007 to cruise a second time around the world on Brick House. He is also, most importantly, Captain of Brick House, AND married to Rebecca! (July 4, 2007) Rebecca Childress (formerly Rebecca Taft) is an accomplished sailor as well. She has owned many boats ranging from a 17' MacGregor, a Catalina 27' and a 36' Catalina, and now the Valiant 40 that she purchased a few years before meeting Patrick. Before they head out on their circumnavigation, she had completed numerous blue water passages between Rhode Island and the Caribbean and passages across the Gulf of Mexico. Cruising has included the Bahama Islands, New England, Nova Scotia, the Florida coast all in preparation for the day she could circumnavigate. Rebecca holds her 50 Ton Masters Captains License with towing and sailing endorsements. She is also a General Licensed Ham Radio Operator. She met Patrick on her first NARC Rally from Newport to Bermuda. She had always dreamed of sailing around the world, and knew that a passage to Bermuda in November would teach her more about heavy weather sailing since it is usually rough that time of year. Several years later when Patrick and Rebecca got together, they set their sites on earning enough money to cruise around the world together! Three years later, they had saved their money and were ready to move aboard! Rebecca was a very successful Realtor in Newport, RI, and has an extensive list of Computer Certifications and experience as well. Together now, they make a great team to take their home around the world for several years! More
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