I see the oven where I baked so many loaves of bread and the stove that I must have turned on 5,000 times. Our lives depend on it.Īs I look around the main cabin, I see the floor between the galley and chart table where we huddled together one stormy night, on passage between Tonga and Fiji, as lightning struck all around us, just waiting for it to hit the mast. Not because living in approximately 250 square feet has us bumping into each other on a regular basis, but because when we're crossing oceans, enduring bad weather in anchorages, solving problems, and making a multitude of decisions, we have to be on the same wavelength.

Jim and I came aboard as two very independent people who cared a great deal for one another but didn't spend a lot of time together. She's been my home, my vehicle to see the world, my sanctuary. I love this boat more than what's reasonable for an inanimate object. We brought her to Port d'Andratx near Palma on Mallorca, in Spain's Balearic archipelago, and spent the last two weeks lavishing her with attention.

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