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The Final Chapter

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Starry Night was listed by our broker in Yacht World in mid-May, and after three months, we accepted an offer. The survey process was completed and final acceptance by the buyer was received in mid-September with closing scheduled for the last week of September. During the months of showings by our broker, Steve and I had taken alternating trips back and forth from Satellite Beach to Charleston to remove our personal items and ensure Starry Night was ship-shape, but we returned together one last time to say our final goodbyes.  I was much more emotional than either Steve or I expected me to be, but I suppose we shouldn't have been surprised. Change is always hard, and this is a big one. We remain, nevertheless, convinced that this is the right decision at the right time. As fate would have it, closing was delayed by a week and in the interim a storm was brewing in the Atlantic. We therefore made one more trip to Charleston the following week to make Starry Night storm-ready and sa...
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A Long Trip Home

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 Once again, several months have passed since my last post so to recap: Steve and I had just wrapped up our winter/spring season in the Bahamas and were ready to embark on our return trip to Florida. I also alluded to things requiring our attention at home. This prompted us to jump at the first promising weather window even though we had hoped to have a couple of days of down-time before leaving the Bahamas.  What I didn't mention is that our life's circumstances have changed in such a way that we want to spend more time on land with our family and have made the difficult decision to close this chapter of our life and sell Starry Night.  Many people ask whether we are ending our adventure because we're tired of boat life. The answer is, unequivocally, no.  Both of us have loved the beauty, the adventure, and the peace which we have experienced and, if not for the gravitational pull of family, we would have been ready to return to the Carribean and spend time explorin...
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A Glimpse of Boat Life

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  As I've mentioned before, one of the things Steve and I love most about our life on Starry Night is sharing the experience with our friends and family.   During each of the three weeks after Brad and Darlyn left, we had newcomers aboard - most of whom experienced their first taste of what boat life entails. While I think that all of our friends enjoyed their visits, I could also tell that one week was long enough for some of them and that they were ready to get back to the land-based life and the freedom to come and go at will. Thankfully, the weather was mostly cooperative during our last three weeks, and we were able to either sail, snorkel, paddleboard, fish, or go ashore every day.  Our guests during the last three weeks included Vijay and Margie, friends of ours from Pratt & Whitney and Siemens days, an old college friend of Steve's, and our great-nephews, Jacob and Zachary.  We traveled to the same areas that we have been before, with slight variatio...
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