We caught up with Dick and Ann in Deltaville as they were passing through and anchored at Jackson Creek. We sat in the screened porch eating shrimp boiled in beer and Ann's homemade macaroni salad and fresh bread. Yes, she made the most delious crusty artisan bread on her boat. Yum! As we talked late in the night..the wine and beer was a flowing.
We knew Dick and Ann from Fair Haven when we still had our Cape Dory and they were sailing Greyhound, a Trimaran sailboat. Ann introduced us to some good music we had never heard, David Grey. He is one of our favorites now. They raced Greyhound all over the place. That boat could hit 17 knots like nothing. They would trailer her races and to cruise. Then they moved on to Nati, 38ft Catamaran in 2012 and started cruising full time six years ago. They write a wonderful blog about their adventures to the Bahamas and back, check it out at www.svnati.blogspot.com. This is one of the ones we read and continue to read...it helped us dream a little bigger.
Ann
Dick
Q1. How old were you when you decided you wanted to live on a boat?
Ann: "40"
Dick: "35"
Q2. What has been the most exciting thing that's happened since you been boating?
Ann: "Cross the gulf stream coming onto the magic water of the Bahamas all of sudden the water colors changes from deep deep blue to green to turquoise So gorgeous and it really is the magic water."
Dick: "My first spearing of a lobster. It was in the Exumas and I was apprehensive that a shark would come by."
Q3. Where is your favorite place that you traveled to...so far?
Ann: "Ragged Islands, Bahamas. The remoteness of it. Crystal clear water. The people that you do meet are fantastic, friendly, welcoming and independent not the norm."
Dick: "The Ragged Islands. No McDonalds or Burger King. It's all you and nobody else. All you have is what you bring with you."
Q4. What is the scarest thing or the hardest thing since you been boating?
Ann: "I would say when we were in St. Augustine and going into a fuel dock. As we maneuvered into the fuel dock we lost steering on the starboard engine. Between the wind and strong current we got sucked into fishing pier so Nati laid against it. There was nothing we could do with the power from the other engine because it would push Nati further under the pier or would have backed our stern further back and possibly lost her mast. I thought, oh shit! It bent three stantions and scratched her side. BoatUS had to put a bridle broad side to Nati to pull us off."
Dick: "Same. It was worse than the time we anchored for Hurricane Sandy at slander creek off Pingo River."
Q5. What is one thing you really don't like to do but have to do since you've been living on a boat?
Ann: "Go to land."
Dick: "Repair for the float switch for the holding tank(toilet). You can't see, you just have to feel around or see with a mirror."
Q6. What is an important relationship you made due to this lifestyle?
Ann: "Good friends and meeting new friends."
Dick: "none"
Q7. Name one thing that you miss from being a "landlubber"
Ann: "Nothing."
Dick: "Twin Trees Pizza in Syracuse."
Q8. What is your favorite boating swear word? (In honor of James Lipton)
Ann: "we don't really swear much, probably-oh shit!"
Dick: "awe shit!"
Caught Nati leaving us to head north from Jackson Creek
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