The Morningstar is now a Floridian!!!

[smoolie671]

We are finally here! The Morningstar made the trip ok....sort of. I of course had to load some of our household belongings inside of her, so I wanted to put a new tarp over everything and strap it down with rope and bungees. Well after 7 days of hard driving, the tarp is a complete write-off. While I was uncovering her, I noticed that there is severe tarp rash all over the poor thing. Blue splotches everywhere that I'll have to repaint. I also noted that a rather nice bit of wood carving that I had spent allot of time on, managed to fall off and is now lost. :'( I suspect it happened somewhere in Louisiana. The roads there are horrible! They where so bad that one of the trailer fenders broke loose and caused a catastrophic yet spectacular failure of the tire. All that was left were pieces of rubber no larger than a .50$ piece.

So now begins the task of finishing her and finally introducing her to Florida water.

[Ken_Potts]

  Congratulations on the move.  I'm sorry to hear about the damage.

  Unfortunately you arrived just a little too late for the Everglades Challenge.  There's always next year.

[Andrew_Butchart]

The Everglades Challenge with cannon?

Woo Hoo!

[Steve Day]

Glad to see you made it, Smoolie.

I would be willing to bet you will not regret the move .The waters in Florida are far better than those in Utah, or was that Idaho? ;D ;D

Now that you are down there in Florida, there is a better chance we'll be able to lay an eyeball on Morningstar. It's not that far from LA (Lower Alabama).

Steve

[keithmclean]

Congrats on your move Smollie, now that your in the SE maybe you can join us for a messabout. The BYYB has a pretty active fleet of stevenson boats in the south. We are planning a big messabout for the Summer Sailstice on June 21st at Hart State Park in GA. We'd love to have you attend, bring your boat if it's ready or just come up and sail aboard with someone else.

Keith

[PAR]

Welcome Ulysses. The nicest sailing time of the year is now, so find something to splash and have at it. The winds are fair and the temperatures in the low to mid 70's (our average for this time of year).

Yep, "road dues" often have to be paid on extended trips. I suspect you'll have her spruced up in no time.

You're here just in time for a new theme park to open (Sea World's latest adventure), which I hear is cool if you have kids.

You'll soon be quite spoiled on our weather. Yes, it can get damn hot in the summer, most places do, but how many can brag about 70 degree temperatures from November to April. Once you've been here a few years (it takes that long to get used to the heat), you're blood will "thin out" a little, making prolonged trips back to the "great white north" imposable to tolerate for very long. It's a burden easily managed, as you can always invite them (family and friends) down for the holidays (they'll likely invite themselves). Tell them to bring a sweatshirt, because December is our coldest month, but Santa ringing a bell outside a Wal-Mart, will still be wearing shorts (the rules are different here).

Again, welcome to the sunshine state.

[kydocfrog]

Fantastic. I've been completely fascinated by the Morningstar odyssey. I delighted that it will resume in kinder waters.

DocA

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