A short history of SV Companion -
In April of 2005, Kim and I signed an agreement to purchase a Leopard Catamaran and place it in the Moorings Charter Program for 5 years.

Buying the last 40' Catamaran built in 2005 by Robinson and Caine of South Africa, the boat was to be chartered in Placencia, Belize. It arrived in Belize in late November, and was used by Moorings Chartering until June of 2010. During that time, we were able to sail our boat many times, and have a few charters in other parts of the world; LaPaz Mexico, Abaco Bahama, British Virgin Islands, Nice France, Gocek Turkey (Turquoise Coast).

Max , our nephew and his dad, Mike will be joining, Kim and I for part of the voyage. We are also looking forward to meeting family and friends along the way.

Our blog is intended to share our journey, memories and information to sailors.

Enjoy, Dale & Kim

PS: 10 years after the start of our voyage, we are living in LaConner with SV Companion and the adventure continues.











Thursday, October 7, 2010

Morning Time Bano Oct 7

Ok.. so this might be one of the craziest/weirdest/scariest things that ever happen to me..,, and I mean ever…like most mornings we get up early and realize that it might be only 2 or 3 am – so we try and go back to sleep – which happened today – then at 5 am  -  I was ready to conquer the world….. so Dale in his ultimate patience walked with me to the bathrooms (BANO) in the marina building –

This is the honest to God truth -  he walked into the men’s “bano” and I headed for the ladies – upon opening the door – all I could think of … “is this the end?” – a “gunman” was squatting on the floor of the ladies room  in the dark – with a huge shotgun  – and I mean HUGE….jumped up and was startled…..I felt like… I am not sure what I felt like – anyway … I fell back against the wall – holding my heart to keep it from coming out of my chest –know I said something to Dale – not sure what exactly,  but I obviously scared the gunman….

I don’t know WHO scared WHO the most  - but the poor marina guard (which of course I did not know at the time) was shook up and  “got caught “ sleeping on the job in the ladies bano –  my heart got an extra kick start for my day and got the living “crap” scared out of me as that is why I was headed to that place anyway… Dale like the great guy that he is …… says… “oh, guess that is to be expected… we are being protected!”   I never……… I bet that guard doesn’t hang out in my bano tonight!!  Life on the boat – is still good…  Dale might have to treat me to an ice cream, margarita, or something this afternoon!!


k

2 comments:

  1. WOW!!!! Intense - you wanted an adventure:)

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  2. Oh my gosh this kind of protection you don't need. Tell him to go protect/nap in the men's bano


    Fran

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