Travel School for us starts each year with two solid weeks of home-schooling at home. We use the time to get into the groove of school, discuss our goals for the year and prepare, academically, for the places we will visit. Aristotle said in his book of Poetics that “decisions define character.” Each day of our travel-school represents…
Tag: Huckins Yachts
Plan? What Plan.
We moved on to Cortado in early November with the plan of cruising straight to the Bahamas. That was OUR plan. Mother nature had a different plan. For a safe and smooth Gulf Stream crossing, we needed two days of calm, South, South-West or East breeze. Anything from the South would do. What we got, instead…
Cruising Cortado and Christmas 2014
We started out writing this blog, as a way to communicate with our families in Indiana, Maryland, Virginia and New York. This may explain why some posts are not about ideas or newfound wisdom, but just a glorified, public diary of our journey. Please understand at this time, we are just figuring things out. Our…
More Florida Cruising
This past week has been filled with quiet family time and getting to know the boat. Tony and I are learning how to travel and dock as a team, and we are settling easily into our roles and routines. The boat is lovely. Wandering down the inter-coastal has been a delightful experience. It is so…
We Christen Thee… Cortado
Built in 1973, our boat is a unique wooden-hulled Sportsman 40 HUCKINS. check out Huckins Yachts here — (below is the poem we read at our christening event 5 November, 2014) CORTADO Let this be our quiet place, Our small haven from the noise and bustle of everyday. Let us find within these walls of…
JENNIE MAC + CORTADO
We did it! We managed to pack all our things, fly down to Jacksonville and bought ourselves a beautiful Huckins yacht. As Tony says, “this is a dream we never knew we had…” These photos are of the transom being hand-lettered by Larry Dillon who has supposedly painted most every Huckins transom for the last…
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