Here’s to the new year – 2022

Happy New Year!! We hope you all had a fun New Year’s Eve and have had a relaxing start to this new, exciting year. I know we are all wishing for (and hoping for) a better year where we can be with our families and friends without masks or social distancing!

We rang in the new year with our friends Jane and Steve Holler! They arrived at Loggerhead around 2 pm on Dec. 31 and tied up on our dock but across from us. We helped them get on the dock by taking their lines – although they did a great job coming along side the face dock. After they settled in, we got together for appetizers, bubbly, and then dinner. It was great to celebrate the new year with them.

So it’s a new year but we still have the same boat jobs hanging around. We did zero jobs while the girls were here – which was amazing and a well needed break!! Now we are back at it – well one of us is back at it, hehe! Mark spent part of the day up the main mast, cleaning and polishing it. He also spent time working on some corroded copper pipes that are part of the steering and fuel systems. I helped get Mark up and down the mast, but for most of the day, I enjoyed the hammock 😁.

We definitely have more jobs to complete in the next few weeks but we are slowly getting back up to speed. We are waiting on some deliveries – the wind generator and the water maker are taking a long time to arrive!! Both items have fairly complicated installations so it would be nice to get them soon.

Our plan for the rest of our sailing season is still evolving. The Bahamas are changing their entrance requirements as of Jan. 7. After that date, all travellers must have a negative pcr test within 72 hours of their arrival (the previous requirement for vaccinated individuals was to have an antibody test 5 days before arrival – much easier). That’s a fairly tight timeline when you are looking for the right weather window to cross over to the Bahamas. We are playing it by ear and not rushing. Better to be safe then sorry!