In the foreground is our boat guru Barron Parker. For the past five years, whenever we have not known the answer to something engine or boat related, we have turned to Barron. His boat knowledge is awesome. He has taught us to do fiberglass repairs, varnishing, metal work, and engine stuff as well as being a constant source of places to go to find the parts we need for the thousands of projects. So, thank you Barron, we will never know how to repay you for your wisdom and hours of help.

Our new Dutch friends Jan and Yolanda, who plan to leave San Diego at the same time as us made us laugh when we used a free internet service to translate their recent blog post:
"We were invited to a party at Saturday, November 15 at Seaporth Marina where Richard and Virginia are. Do not know whether we go. Could be that we have left, because the urge to release it starts each day to be stiffer. The Saudade should fly!"
We'll do our best to catch up with them, but it will read like the tortoise and the hare story as 'The Saudade' is a big fast sexy racing boat.