forgotten picture

I forgot I had this picture on my phone. Our friends Walter and Jeff bought an awesome 49' Gulfstar. It has large crane on top for lifting the dinghy. While anchored out at the islands a couple weeks ago they put the anchor to better use and hung a hammock off the edge, allowing themselves to gently swing inches above the water. BRILLIANT!

shirts and flutes

Jenny got a belated gift card for her bday a while back and we just now made it out to use the thing. She got a very maritime looking shirt and has been inspired to learn some old chantey songs on her flute.
Also, found this SWEET map complete with seamonsters and other awesomeness:
http://ian-albert.com/misc/zoom-gutierrezmap.php

Totally need seamonster tattoos.

massive post

Alright! Here is the "long awaited" post with some real pics. For an entire summer aboard, this is a pretty meager sampling, but well, it's all for now...



My parents and sister came to visit for the 4th of July festivities here in Boston.


My father:

My sister:
My mother (somehow the Harvard shirt doesn't really work with the wingnut hat...):


We went on a visit to Salem, MA that week as well as an overnighter on the Charles river for the fireworks. These two pics are of me driving to each place (in that order)


This is where we stayed in Salem at Hawthorne Cove Marina:

More of Hawthorne Cove . It was very quiet and nice:

Then, the river was the loud party fun part of the trip. Carl and Susan came to visit in their "sports car" version of a boat (aka 17 foot bow rider):

They brought the pug, Jack:

This guy drove his car through the river:

TIME WARP!



This is now pictures from last weekend. I got a new snorkel set!:

There was a rainbow:
At some point there were many seagulls behind a lobster boat...

Jenny and I went fishing at this lighthouse: caught nothing :(

and we got engaged at Peddocks Island...as was mentioned in a previous post:

This is the view as we departed Peddocks:

Happy couple:
and a nice Peddocks Sunset:

That is all for now!

net

With the acquisition of Sprint Mobile Broadband our floating palace is now internet capable. woohoo! This will mean many more frequent updates for all of you would-be blogger readers.

In the meantime, we spent three beautiful days anchored off of Peddocks Island in Portugese Cove and managed to get engaged in the meantime! Yay!

things...

We stayed out on an Island Mooring for the first time! It was pretty darn sweet. The leaky stuffing box issue has finally been fixed so we are happy to be able to do things like island moorings whenever. Boat life is darn nice so far. :)

We also went lobstering on Carl and Susan's boat. That was darn fun.

More later. We are getting the net at home within a month!

Having no Internet is making for a very weak blog on our part, and we apologize. We are thinking about getting the Internet on the boat when a) Justin goes back to school or b) in the winter...but for now, you will have to be patient.

The coffee house (Sorelle) that is nearest to the marina is really wonderful. They have great food and drinks, and is just a very nice place. If I could make it here more, I probably would, although now that I don't spend all my time online, I feel as though there is not much to do once I'm here.

Justin's parents visited, and we took our first real significant trek to Salem, MA. A couple of days later, we took the boat up the Charles River for the famous 4th of July Fireworks w/ the Boston Pops. Again, great fun, despite the minor problem of the bilge pump breaking right as the pops began their concert. Typical!

Well, this is a pretty pathetic post, but it's all I have time for, for now.

-Jenny

whew...

What a week. My parents came to visit on Sunday the 1st. We left that afternoon for our first big boating trip. We went out and up to Salem, MA since my sis wanted to go there real bad. It was a ton of fun, if not a bit nerve wracking, but we made it just fine and it was great to dock in a different marina for a night. The ride back was more relaxed, since we knew what we were doing a bit better. Then, on the morning of the 4th of July we took the boat through the locks system up the Charles River and anchored out for 24 hours! It was sweet. Disasters happened, both with our boat and with others on the river, but through some improvising and brainstorming all crises were averted and a great time was had. I can perhaps explain more later, but I'm in a hurry for now. It was lots of fun and we feel like we've finally been able to really use our boat for boating and not just for living... it was awesome. Pics to come, hopefully.

-Justin