Cruising Aboard Tobias with Suzie and Kirby

We managed to get it all in our "new to us" van and are driving to Charleston to begin our new life!

After 2 weeks of cleaning, polishing and waxing TOBIAS is more beautiful than ever.

Of course we did this during the heat of summer and I have never "glowed" quit this much before but we got the van packed to the gills and headed out.

We are currently holed up in a nice cool motel room in NC with "Pirates of the Caribbean" on the TV and cool AC blowing on us!

It was really sad to leave our TOBIAS but a new chapter calls to us and TOBIAS will find a new owner to have more adventures with.

Thanks to all of you who have written your words of encouragement, love and support for us as we lived our dream. It was a wonderful experience that has enriched our lives and I will never ever forget.

To you who are thinking of cruising - DO IT! You won't regret one minute! And the clock is ticking........don't put it off too long.

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Vessel Make/Model:	Freedom 35 - TOBIAS is named for a creek in the Sierras where we camped many times, Suzie proposed to Kirby and then spent our honeymoon. We love both the boat TOBIAS and the creek TOBIAS!
Hailing Port:	Charleston, SC but we are really from Southern California
Crew:	Suzie and Kirby Townsend
Extra:	We are actually from Southern California and sold our last sailboat in Mexico. We decided to go east to purchase our next boat so we traveled to Maryland where we found Tobias. We spent the winter of 2006 living aboard and preparing Tobias to go cruising. In May we departed and headed north. We [...] went as far as Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia and then headed back down south. We have completed our cruise of the Bahamas and will be going north again as far as Maryland. More