Christmas Pirate's Booty

What a haul this Christmas! We received so many great things for the boat. I think the sleeper in all these riches is the portable, manual table-top washing machine. If it will do a set of sheets, like it claims, we'll be able to do most of our laundry right on the boat! Susan thanks for the Garmin Chart-plotter. Andrea and Jordan thank you for all the other wonderful things (they gave us the washing machine)! Now all I have to do is install everything or find a place on the boat to store it. Life is good!
Fair winds & Smooth sailing,
Lawrence  S/V  Elle & I

Merry Christmas!

Very Merry and a Happy, Healthy New Year. We'll see you on the water in our floating home the S/V Elle & I in just 5 months! Fair winds & Smooth sailing,
Elaine & Lawrence

Pneumonia, a few months, & retire

For the second time in my life, I got pneumonia. I'm better now, but for a few weeks I was not a happy camper. We have 5 1/2 months till we plan to be living on the boat. First we get to spend Christmas with our son and his family. We still have a lot of packing to do in the house. It's going to get really busy from here till June.
Fair winds & Smooth sailing,
Lawrence  S/V Elle & I

Inflation and the SSA

Well, gosh, thanks to ever present inflation the SSA is going to allow me to earn around $14600.00 in 2012. So that means I'll be able to work for one additional week in 2012. So that means that my retirement date has changed to Wednesday, May 30, 2012. We can certainly use the extra cash going into retirement, but it gets better. Retirees will also be getting a COL (cost of living) increase in 2012. The first since 2009!! Yippee!!!
Fair winds & Smooth sailing,
Lawrence  S/V Elle & I

7 & Counting!

Like I wrote before the 25th. of each month is a day I look forward to. Now we are just 7 months away from retirement. I'll be applying for SSI next month on the 9th! Yipee!
Fair winds & Smooth sailing,
Lawrence  S/V  Elle & I

So the 25th of the month is a nice day of the month, don't you think? For me it is really nice because on the 25th of  May in the year of our Lord 2012 I can retire. I actually can retire a little sooner, but I plan to work till then. After that Elle & I's great adventure will begin. I, Lorenzo di Chenzo, cannot wait! See you on the water!
Fair winds & Smooth sailing,
Lawrence Leonard  S/V  Elle & I

8 and Counting

We're down to 8 months till our hopeful departure. I'm feeling good about live-aboard life, but Elaine is having second thoughts. I hope once out on the water, she'll find she loves that life. I think the odds are 50/50. We'll both know soon enough.
Fair winds & Smooth sailing,
Lawrence  S/V  Elle & I    

The INTERVIEW WITH A CRUISER Project: 10 Questions for Reach

One of the best written, most thoughtful of these interviews I've read to date.
Fair winds & Smooth sailing,
Lawrence  S/V  Elle & I      

The INTERVIEW WITH A CRUISER Project: 10 Questions for Reach: Mark Cole and Michele Kelly began cruising in 2008 aboard Reach, a Manta 40 catamaran hailing from Mystic, Connecticut, USA. They traveled ...

Seymour's Boatyard

Still working on map location. Seymour's Boatyard is where we hope to spend next summer.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=40.899144,-73.354501&spn=0.004695,0.005429&t=h&z=17


Here's a link to Seymour's websitehttp://www.seymoursboatyard.com/:

Point Bay Marina

So I'm working on map location posts. This we'll call "Home Sweet Boat" The link is for the marina  

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.274962,-73.286672&z=17&t=h&hl=en

Face Book Find

I just found out on Sailblog's Facebook page that they are down due to some ISP server storage issue. I hope they get up and running soon. Winter gets real long without cruising tales to read. Facebook? Go figure.
Fair winds & Smooth sailing,
Lawrence

Beginning Boat list 2012

Elaine has started Elle & I's provisions list. Let the games begin!!

Happy Birthday to Me !

I turned 61 on Wednesday, 02/09/2011. 16 months to go!
Fair winds & Smooth sailing,
Lawrence 

ElleandI @ Home

Elaine and I may move over to Blogger.com because of the extra goodies they offer for your use on a blog site. Since we haven't had time to explore these extras yet, we'll coninue to post on Sailblogs.com. The link to our blog is shown here. We intend to post a link on Sailblogs to our site here at Blogger. We'll see which we like best and make our move in a timely fashion for our friends and family to be able to follow. For now:

Fair winds & Smooth sailing,

Elaine & Lawrence   S/V  Elle & I



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