Our trip is done, the adventure is finished.  We fly out today via Cherokee Aviation, with Ziggy in a kennel riding with us in the passenger cabin.

We had the boat hauled out at the Marsh Harbor Boatyard in the Abacos this morning.

She is getting pressure washed and bottom painted.  We will keep her there with hurricane straps on the hard until we come back.

Maybe in the summer?  Maybe not until winter.

Leaving the boat here and flying over is quicker and also cheaper than storing it in the States.

We both are somewhat sad about leaving our boat home for the last four and a half months.  She has gotten us everywhere we wanted to go.  She has weathered bumps, squalls and rough seas.

She got us all the way to the bottom of the Bahamas, Georgetown, and all the way back up to Marsh Harbor in the Abacos.  She’s sailed the Atlantic, the Bahamas Bank, the Exuma Sound and the Sea of Abaco.

She gave us the most stunning coral and azure sea views as we traversed these waters, sights only seen from a boat.

Her shallow draft got us into 3 foot waters; her anchor never slipped.

The gremlins we encountered early on settled down once we got to the Bahamas, and the engines, batteries and navigation worked in concert to carry us along.

We will miss the boat and the people we have met.  Ziggy will miss all the attention she gets.

Toucan will sit in her cradle on Cat Alley with sister catamarans in the boatyard, with a view of the Sea of Abaco.

She will wait for us to come back. And go back in the water, where a sailboat belongs.

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