Missing the Sea
August 11, 2011
After having been home for just over a month we are missing the boat and being on the water. The creature comforts here far exceed that on the boat. For instance, finding a comfortable place to sit on the boat for long hours is a challenge. All the comforts of a house are apparent yet they are part of the reason we miss Why Knot. A month is about the limit of endurance if one knows a boat is out there just waiting to come to life and welcome her crew aboard again. We have spent well over a twelve hundred days aboard Why Knot since we bought her. That means we are joined at some mental point. She has many dings she did not have then and with each, there is a story. We certainly would not have gotten those dings if we had left her in the slip. Trinkets of our time aboard are starting to clutter our book shelves at home. That piece of sea glass that started as a broken bottle on a beach in Abaco now resides in sea shell on that shelf. The Conch shell that reminds me of some exotic flower from a botanical garden is there also. Our computer screen savers are slides that remind us of places we have visited. In short we are surrounded by sights and sounds of the ocean, of the beaches and of the people we have met along the way. In a way, these items are a sort of mini collage of the things we can expect to cherish once we “can sail no more”. We said when we first started the cruise that the idea was to make memories for use later. Later heck. We are using them now. We do not know yet how long we will be here. That is especially hard on this old dawg’s sense of timing. It does not help that our new prop arrived yesterday and will just have to sit in the go box for some undetermined time. Like all feathering props, that thing is a work of engineering art. Think I will assemble it and use it for a center piece on the dining table until we go back. Until then, we will be dealing with life on land which thankfully gives us a chance to visit good friends ashore.


The photo, maybe our favorite, is from atop the Hopetown Lighthouse on Elbow Cay, Abaco. The view is of the Parrot Cay and beyond toward Marsh Harbor