Jim: Our future base

Back from my trip South. Pat's parents are building a house in St. James Plantation in Southport NC, and we make trips down occasionally to fill up the storage shed. In this wonderful new house is an apartment over the garage that we can use as a base of operations and storage area for all of our possessions while we are gone. It is 45' long by 15' wide (strangely, the same size as Helios).

Dan and Sandy will be the parents-in-residence. Dan is a master carpenter with a wood shop that would make Norm from "This Old House" cry himself to sleep. Sandy is at the top of the Medical Radiation/PET scan field. The house is on the 14th tee of the golf course. A beautiful dog-leg-right with a raised green and a few water hazards (opps, I lost my train of thought). We moved a bunch of tools down along with a very nice pile of old wood.

With this as a base, we should be able to store our stuff here and visit if we are poor and the laundry bag is full and we can no longer afford diesel fuel or sail repairs or food. It is always good to have a plan "B". More to come...