Time to Go!

After almost 4 years in the Keys, It is time to go. We will be leaving tomorrow headed for Galveston Bay in Texas. We plan to spend the winter there and then resume the loop or the Bahamas or the USVI. Who knows, that is 5 months away. I can not hardly predict tomorrow much less March. We plan to stay in the Galveston area till March 1st. At the top of the blog there is a link that says "Click here to see where we are". If you click on that it will take you to a map to show you where Walkabout is. Hopefully we will be where she is. Lol.

We really enjoyed our trip down the west coast of Florida on Morgan, hopefully it will be just as enjoyable the other direction on Walkabout. I think back about living on Morgan (25' sailboat) and just laugh. Wow what a difference between a 25' sailboat that was so small that I could not even stand up in (thanks to the Thompson genes Sharon could) and Walkabout a 36' trawler.

As close as I can figure it will be about 1,050 nautical miles which means about 262 gallons of diesel. It will be interesting to see what we actually use. I know rag baggers (sailboaters) who would die of a heart attack at the thought of buying 262 gallons of fuel ($720.00). but that is less than a months slip fee in the Keys. Everything is retaliative I guess.

It will probably take between 5 and 7 weeks to make the trip (we are not in a hurry). The trawler life has been compared to that of a turtle. You carry your home on your back and crawl at 6 knots (7 mph). That is just fine with me. 6 knots is plenty fast for me. It is like life "It's about the journey, not the destination".

The day we left back in 2011.