Well overdue- It is time to resurrect our blog entries. It has been well over a year since our last post. Linda & I celebrated our 1st year of marriage in May with fond memories of our trip up the intercoastal waterway. Our first year with The Last Mango in New England was a great one. We spent every weekend on her with trips to Montauk, Block Island, Napa Tree, Sag Harbor, Coecles Harbor, and our two big trips last year were New York City via Long Island Sound and Narragansett Bay. Both of these trips offered new places for us to explore. Linda fell in love with the Thimble Islands and we were able to visit Miss Liberty in New York Harbor- up close and personal. Our trip in Narragansett bay included a visit to the Herreshoff museum, and a pub crawl in Jametown. We also took Mckenzie (our granddaughter) for an overnight trip to Fishers Island. Then winter came and Mango went into hibernation. We visited her often, made a few improvements and had a few cocktails to keep us warm. Georgia and Ryan both graduated from Sam Houston University in December and Juan’s niece’s daughter, Tess got married in San Antonio. We were able to make both celebrations and spend Christmas with our family in Texas. Georgia & Ryan have since gotten engaged.
We are in full swing for 2011. We started our season with a camping trip to New Hampshire then rushed home to meet Georgia and Ryan who had flown up to attend Nick’s graduation from UMass Dartmouth. Mango was in the water for Memorial Day and we were able to do a three leg trip to Montauk, Block, and back home. Mckenzie’s seaman skills are building as she is now able to drive our dinghy which she named Coconut. Soon we hope to make her our back up auto-pilot. Last week we staged Mango on a mooring owned by Phil’s brother, Tim. It is located across from Dutch Island at the foot of the Jamestown Bridge. This saved us a vacation day for our current adventure. We are now on our July trip exploring new waters. It started yesterday at 630 AM with a marathon run from Tim’s mooring through the Cape Cod Canal and on to Scituate, Massachusetts at 10 PM. No major issues, but our autopilot seems to have stripped some gears. This morning we left Scituate and are heading for Portland, Maine to meet up with Jan and Lou- They travel by Land Yacht! Our ETA is 630 PM. Phil and Kimberly will be sailing their Saga sailboat Lucky Dog from Tim’s house also and will be meeting us in Portland possibly Sunday night. Paul Rezendes has been our scout. He started his trip to Maine last weekend and is now somewhere in Penobscot bay.
