Ugggh!
Well, it’s been three weeks since we left our boat in Beaufort, NC. At that time, it wasn’t looking like we’d get a weather window to get down to Fort Lauderdale by November 28 and, given this, we’d also have to reschedule the delivery of our Pod…so, we decided to rent a car and drive to Sarasota and to hire a boat captain to deliver the boat down, once the weather window opened. This was an expense I’d rather would have not had to incur.
While One as been at Just Catamarans for a little over a week now. Solar should be done on Wednesday, we’ve been told…but honestly, given our lack of success in schedules lately, I’m not holding my breath.
Sam and Brentley are flying into Florida so we can spend Christmas up at Lecanto. We’ve moved Sam’s flight up so that possibly he could accompany us to Bimini. However, the weather is not looking great for a crossing this Sunday. Yeah, we’re a bit far our so lots of things can happen. The front can speed up or it can slow down. Who knows. But, when you have flights already scheduled from Bimini to FLL and Brentley and her girlfriend flying into TPA on the 22nd, we have constraints!
Yeah, we’re frustrated we couldn’t be at Bimini by now…but as we sit and ponder, we’ve come to realize that the bulk of our frustration is really self-inflicted. The goal for cruising is to wait the weather out and avoid, insomuch as you can predict, any nasty weather and waves. However, when you schedule Pods to be delivered, solar to be installed, flights for Sam and Brentley, flights to get back from Bimini to FLL, etc….it’s REALLY difficult to just go with the flow – Or as they say, as the wind blows.
We did this to ourselves. We’re so used to having things when we want, as we planned them. Had it not been for all of these things, we’d simply wait out the weather in Beaufort, Key Biscayne, Charleston or wherever we happened to be at the time on our boat and exploring new places…but instead, we find ourselves in a limbo of constantly changing plans.
Yes, it’s official…we suck at this cruising thing. Lesson learned. In the future, we’ll do much better.