Starry Night
1975 Tayana 37
| Vessel Name: | Starry Night |
| Vessel Make/Model: | 1975 Tayana 37 (CT37) |
| Hailing Port: | South Freeport, Maine |
| Crew: | Bob, Jamey, Amanda and Alyssa |
| About: | Bob and Jamey Myron, Amanda Myron (age 9) and Alyssa Myron (age 7) |
| Extra: | Sailing from Durham, Maine to the BVI fall/winter of 2010 |
16 July 2011 | Branford, CT
The gift of time
As we get closer to home, people are starting to ask what the best and worst part of the trip has been.
02 July 2011
Updates
The last 3 blogs were posted after the fact as the sailblogs website was down. I posted them on facebook and was just able to repost here. I also downloaded some photos on facebook which I will copy here when I am able. If you'd like to see the photos on facebook, just search for jamey myron. They're on my site in photos/albums. Thanks to everyone for taking the time to read about our adventures and keep in touch with us. It's good to have a touchstone when drifting around!
02 July 2011 | Solomon's Island, Chesapeake Bay
An Uneventful Day
No big stories today. No water in the boat, lost ground tackle or storms. The boat stayed clean, the kids got along and the weather was beautiful. Not much to write about, but it was amazing to experience. It was perfection. I'm not sure if it's because of or in spite of our recent adventures, but we [...]
02 July 2011 | Norfolk, VA
It takes about 20 seconds
We left Norfolk early this morning in beautiful weather. The seas were flat, winds were calm and almost no traffic in the harbor (which is rare in itself). Things were so calm that Bob had let me sleep. He got up around 6 to get us going. Just outside the harbor, he passed across the channel to head [...]
02 July 2011
Georgetown, SC
We arrived in Georgetown SC today around lunchtime. The scenery here along Winyah Bay is stunning, though we haven’t adjusted to the water color in the states yet. It seems so murky compared to the Bahamas and Caribbean.
30 May 2011 | Charleston, South Carolina
Getting older
Now that we are back in the US, one of the girls' favorite thing to do is call and talk to friends. Being away from friends has been one of the hardest part of this trip for them.
What I want when I grow up
Right now, we are at the home of some of those amazing people. Not many people would strangers pull right up to their garage (dock) and live there for a while when you they are not home, especially with 2 very energetic kids running around. But what has truly touched me while visiting here in Florida is not their generosity or hospitality, but the kindness of their hearts.
Their home is filled with beach-combing treasures that they have collected together on various journeys in their lives and pictures of their adventures with their daughter as she grew. Never have I seen a shell collection worthy of a museum used so beautifully to decorate, but each coral or shell is a reminder of their adventures and life together (good and bad, I’m sure). The photos of their family seem to radiate joy and love for each other.
I want that when I grow up. I want to be the kind of person that makes you proud to be a human, continue to travel or do the things that I love in life and have a home full of reminders of our lives and our family. I can think of no better way to spend my life or memorial for how I lived.
I have much to learn along the way to get there (the teenage years are not far off!), but I continue to see people every day and in almost every place that convince me that it is possible!
So, my thanks to everyone who has shown us such kindness. I hope to pass it on.
