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Archive for November, 2006

Warm weather sailing in the rain…

Posted by Tni Newhoff on November 26th, 2006

Today was a great day. We had hoped to sail on Friday or Saturday, but that was not possible due to rain. We decided yesterday, that rain or shine we would venture out today. We were eager to both get in some sailing time as well as practice our [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted by David Newhoff on November 22nd, 2006

Hey everyone, we obviously have a lot to be thankful for these days. We’ve been here for two weeks and have loved every minute. We’ll miss sharing Thanksgiving with family this year.
There’s much still to do, but the process is very fun. We had our first sail the other day. The boat is amazing [...]

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Weather, Weather, Everywhere

Posted by Tni Newhoff on November 19th, 2006

Up bright and early this morning. Today is part two of a two day weather course (Basic Marine Meteorology Workshop) that David and I are taking. The two days go from 8-5 and are taught by this weather guru at the Merchant Marine weather center about an hour [...]

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The time has come!

Posted by Tni Newhoff on November 15th, 2006

We FINALLY get to go out tomorrow. After almost a week of living on the boat and getting everything sorted out, we finally get to take Rosario for spin tomorrow. We do the official check-out where we are basically out all day and go through every aspect and detail of the boat with our production [...]

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Our First Visitor

Posted by Tni Newhoff on November 13th, 2006

Yay! We had our first visitor today. The very lovely Danielle Gowdy happened to be in town for work and stopped by this AM for a visit. I was filled with so much joy over getting to share Rosario with her and her enthusiasm made it all the more [...]

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Day One

Posted by Tni Newhoff on November 12th, 2006

We just spent our first night on the boat. I slept really well. The bed is surprisingly comfortable and thankfully its strange shape did not affect its comfort. We woke up to blue skies peeking out of our little sunroof…how cool is that…we have a skylight above our bed! [...]

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We are here…

Posted by Tni Newhoff on November 11th, 2006

Well… we are here! It is no longer this intangible thing, it is real and we are living it. I say this as I look around the salon and am amazed at how quickly we have settled in. Still much to be done but it has certainly taken on [...]

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