Hi everyone,

Well, as requested, I'm finally going to start a blog. I'll keep this first post short but just update you to where we are and what's going on.

A lot has happened since we moved the boat from Lake Lanier in Atlanta to Florida. I'll try to give details in a later post. Right now we are back in Ft. Pierce drying out and doing repairs after being in a two day gale with 55 to 60 knot winds 30 miles NW of West End, Grand Bahama Island. We have some damage to the keel and the rudder, the dinghy and lost the alternator. We should be here for a month or two at the most and then we'll launch and start again.....for the third time.

I'll try to do another post when I return from a delivery of a 55 ft steel sloop to Freeport in Grand Bahama Island next Monday and Tuesday. I return Tuesday night via ferry and hope to be back aboard Blue Pearl on Wednesday. So, 'till then, take care.

Bill