In a home slip: First time in 11 years, 6 months

Raconteur at GYC

The top photo was taken on Sunday evening, 29 May 2022, in our new home slip at Guilford Yacht Club in Guilford Connecticut. The bottom photo was taken in early December of 2010, on or around the day we brought Raconteur south from the Chesapeake to our home dock on the ICW in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. We set off from there to the Bahamas and on down to the Caribbean in February, and made it to Trinidad in late June or early July of 2011.  You can find the Voyage Log in a link on the blog.    We have been in a number of places, at anchor, on moorings, in marinas, and on the hard, over all these years, but we are still wrapping our heads around having the boat only seven minutes away from the house - three minutes longer than the elevator ride in Lauderdale.

We had a great couple of days in Newport, at the Newport Shipyard marina.  They took great care of us, and despite a squally day and a half, we were quite comfortable.  It was our first time in Newport, and we fell in love with the place as many people do.  Two great breakfasts, two great dinners (some things do NOT change: We travel on our stomachs), and in the end we left a little reluctantly on Sunday for a ~11 hour motoring trip south and west. It was a great introduction to what we hope will be many happy months and years of exploring the coast of New England and the northern part of the mid-Atlantic.

Raconteur at AOTP

We have a few things to accomplish this month; Susan has gone to NH and JP is off to Europe for a week, and we will visit Florida at the end of the month to see Leigh's mom and deal with Third Flight ahead of hurricane season there.  We have a couple of parties coming up in early/mid July, and THEN we will plan a first excursion in Raconteur, Northbound.