Jen

Hello Jen, I am inviting you as friend...you can click on my picture to read about me...I will go to your site and see your boat...be in touch..Lola...PS this is a great site....I hope to take my boat out for first time in a few weeks.

Wow great site...i looked...you should join the maintenance group or forum...you are way ahead of me. i paid for all my updates, and repairs, and paid a bundle. Congrats.....my cats enclosed src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2472738998?profile=original" alt="" width="1280" height="960"/>

cats Matisse and Monet

Hi, Jen. Just took a glance at your blog and added it to my favorites so I can read it at later. (Have to leave for an UGH dental appointment soon.)

It looks very interesting. I invite you to join my group Sensible Small Boat Cruising.

Richard

Way back in the early and mid 70s I was involved with a boat named Athena in a couple of curious ways.

When I got my first job on a boat, as a deckhand on a dinner cruise vessel here in Fort Lauderdale when we would be returning from our lunch cruise we would pass a 65' sailboat named Athena. On sunny days there would be a very attractive lady sunning herself on deck, and of course, since all men are pigs, we would get out the binoculars and scope her out.

A couple of years later a friend of mine bought Athena and I spent a winter living aboard and painting her.

A couple of years after that, one of my brothers married the girl who used to sun her self on Athena's deck. We've laughed about the fact that I was one of the guys with the binoculars more than once in the retelling of the story over the years.

I'm not into superstition at all when it comes to renaming boats. When I bought my Kaiser 26 (a wonderful, rare, honest bluewater pocket cruiser) it was named Little Dipper. Now, that's an okay name, but just OK.

Years ago reading through the Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea I came across the entry for Nancy Dawson. That's the name of the tune to which the rum ration was piped in the British Navy for over 200 years. I said then that if I ever had a boat worthy of a name that's what it was going to be.

I changed the name immediately without fanfare or ritual and she didn't seem to mind at all. In fact, I think she loved the new name. We single-handed from Ft. Lah dee dah to the Rio Dulce and back without incident in a nine month vacation and I lived on her for another six years.

It's NOT true that one of the happiest days in a boat owner's life is when he sells the boat. I hated doing it, but financial embarassment and a woman forced me into the situation. Now both the boat and bitch are gone and I'm searching for a new boat on which to sail into my retirement.

Great blogspot! I hoping to meet other women sailors to possibly charter with. Love FL water.

great blog. nice to see dreams float. chris in cocoa beach.

wow saw your blog....you are way ahead of me. So do you solo or do you have a partner?

Ahoy Jen,
I like your blog. I am restoring a 1933, Charles Mower designed 50' wooden classic built at Hodgden Brothers Boatyard in East Boothbay Maine. I also work on boats as well as Captain them and teach sailing. You are doing great work.
With smiles and smiles to go.....
Richard

Hi Jen, I invite you to jpin our FEMALE SAILORS GROUP...many solo also...would be great to have you. I will be sailing with Ladye end of this month....she is doing my vacation offer.

Hi Everyone,
Sorry long time in between responses. I haven't spent much time on internet lately. Thank you everyone for comments, notes, and support!

Hi Jen, I have been on your page (I forget how I found it....maybe someone esles page) and think it is absolutely great. And am glad to see you writing again we need it up here.(NE) I too am own my own boat and am having to learn all the systems and single hand. I started out onboard married and now am going through a divorce and I got the boat..........lol. I was the sailor.....he was not. It has been a blast this first year alone. I have been living aboard for 6 years now up here in the friggin NE. Some day I WILL get south. Anyways.....I am glad to see you have joined us here on SeaKnots. Welcome!! ~Barbara

Hi Jen,

I just wanted to say that I admire you. Not many women take the step to liveaboard, much less singlehand. I will be there myself someday when the govt stops moving me around the country;-) I wouldn't mind a sailing trip to FL.

Thanks for your great words on the Repairs....sure hope we can Meetup...you are welcome here anytime,

Hi Jen,
Thanks again for your comments on the Cruising Florida West Coast discussion. I went to your blog and I also had a look at the charts for the Ten Thousand Islands area. Looks like the kind of place I'd like to visit.
Gary

Jen,

Where is your boat in Punta Gorda. My boat is in Barry's marina on Allegator Creek where I am doing some repairs. Hopefully she will be relaunched shortly and will move to Ft Myers City Yacht Basin. There my boat pug, Queen Olivia, and I will move back aboard.

So let's meetup at the Slip Knot or the Irish Pub and tell lies about sailing adventures. Merry X-mas.

Capt Tom Blue
S/V Cayo Mio

The way things are looking we could be "buddy sailing" as Cayo Mio is still on the hard in Allegator Creek! Hopefully she'll get launched today and I will move her before Christmas, but I'll keep you informed.

Who knows perhaps we could crew for each other on this one as long as you promise to not keelhaul me!! I'm fragile you know.

Merry Christmas,
Capt Tom & Queen Olivia

PS Olivia appreciated the complement, but don't do it too often as she Iunlike myself) can be extremely demanding. My phone number is: 774 269-6423 in case you need anything.

Hey Jen!

Have an enjoyable trip and I look forwrad to talking with you more about nearby destinations. I'm so new to the area I have no idea where I can go. I am looking to meet-up with friends from my passage down from Boston in either the Keys or Bahamas as soon as Cayo Mio is put back together.

I had to repair her transmission and rudder this time. So while she was out I refaired and painted her bottom. So hopefully she is ready for another several 1000 miles of cruising.

Enjoy you Christmas and we meet soon almost neighbor.

Capt Tom and Olivia

Hey Jen, I have my boat on the hard at Glades boat storage. I was in the Mooring field in Ft. Myers Beach all last year, was a fun place but not Key West. Sorry I missed your post about finding crew, I would have loved to have done that.

Fair Winds
Mike

Hi Jen,
Hope all is well? if you would like any help with Athena its no Problem. My home port is Charlotte Harbor.
Peace Always,
Captain Ron -^-

Hi Jen,
Did you take a look at my photos of the Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston, TX?
Peace Always,
Captain Ron _/\_

Jen

Take a look on Find a Crew

https://www.findacrew.net/secure-server/eng/home.asp?l=eng&d=www.findacrew.us

Paul

Hi Jen,
I'm in the same boat so to speak. I live in Gold Coast Queensland Austraila. Always looking for a sail buddie. When we go up the coast here it is often night sailing due to distance between ports. I have done some sailing out of your area in a Manta. (Bahamas) Did Panama canal in a 38 mono and about Mustique in a 52 mono. I have a seawind 1160.
I will fly to Cuba last two weeks of May and be in Florida first two weeks of June. Can swop those around. If you wanted to go some where at that time I am happy to help. I would visit prior for you to check me out. If it works you would be welcome to crew for me on a trip here.

Kind regards,

Phil