Relavity

Ok, so we are underway and things are simple. Right. For one thing, life aboard is simple in that one has to deal with problems as they occur lest they mount up to the point the water is above the sole and the Fritoes are wet. With that in mind,we sat in the slip today in Coconut Grove watching speeding knuckleheads that have no concept of rules of navigation, it struck me that there are two distinct segments to our cruising. We won't discuss how a fly swatter improved our life immensely in this segment. What is apparent is that there is life at anchor and at sea and life at the dock. Sounds like a simpleton statement of which I am quite capable. I am referring to the relative comfort level of hanging on the hook off some key versus the solid feeling one gets at a slip. Now I know there are those before us who are purists and who would take issue with being at the dock, any dock. Apologies who might expect Why Knot to be a pure sea boat? We make no apologies for choosing to do a shore power event every few days. You see, that is what we expect of this cruise. Leave the long ocean crossings to others much younger and more adventurous. By being in a slip at Dinner Key this Saturday night of Memorial Day, we observed knuckleheads in abundance. The "no wake" buoys mean nothing here and are merely guide lines. Bear had to stand on my throat several times to keep me from wishing some such person the worst fate in the world by merely gesturing. What's with that?

This is a way cool place. We find here that food proportions are too large, that bikinis are too small (thats' right none can live up to my mate who I still see at 16), especially 80 year old dawgs, that the music is good (Cuban) and that this is the center of the nautical circus. Of this place, we find it as entertaining as Key West.

Aboard this boat at anchor, it is a 42 feet condo isolated in some really nice spots. We have a generator that would give us a/c and all the comforts of home. The only thing is that we must launch our dink to leave this water world at anchor. In the slip, any slip, we are tied up, with shore power and have no responsibilities for the boat. One might conclude that anchoring is a drag. Not so. It is the best place for a sea boat to be, other than at sea. There are those before us that would call us whimps for liking slips. We enjoy both and look forward to being at anchor in the Bahamas as soon as the season, and you know the season to which I refer, is over. Until then, we will combine anchor and slip to the best, for us, advantage. After all, who wants to kick one's self in the ---- if one does not need to. Hello Mister and Miss America and all the ships at sea. Fair winds fellow sailors. I just noticed that is 2130 and I am still up. I did not hear the change of watch bell and am late to the rack.