We have hatched a plan to try to bring Raconteur from Grenada (she has been safely tucked at Spice Island Marine since mid-April 2020) to Guilford, Connecticut (where we have a slip waiting for her) this spring. First step will be to get her ready to splash in early March, splash her around the 10th, and then after figuring out what else is needful, bring her as far as the USVI before heading back Stateside so that we can make our way to Europe in early April. Then, we would join the Salty Dawg Homeward Bound Rally that plans to leave the USVI on or around 10 May for the US east coast. The plan would be to be in Guilford before Memorial Day. JP will say I'm jinxing it by posting, and perhaps I am. After what would be 11 years in June, it will be really hard to leave the beautiful blue waters of the Caribbean behind, but we are ready (we think) for some New England sailing for a few years (a few summers, I suppose) and for having the boat a few minutes from our front door.
We love her still, and look forward to the long-haul adventure and the prospect of anchoring off Fenwick (in Old Saybrook) for the summer party of an old friend in early July. Send us lots of fair winds and following seas, please.
A little reminder of sweet Grenada (Carriacou??) in the meantime.
