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.











Friday, December 2, 2011

Lemmon Cays


Lemmon Cay - another tropical paradise … we about fell over seeing civilization… the first little shack bar we have had in about 12 days ....   As soon as we got ourselves organized and settled in for the evening - Dale, Ed and I had a scouting trip to check out the tropical drinks!  The kids took naps - so we felt it was our "duty" to explore! 

Dinghying back to Companion we saw “life” on the boat - so Ed thought it was his “duty” as the eldest to take the kids back to check it out!!  As Dale and I sat on the foredeck of Companion we got to giggling because we could hear the laughter (loud and clear) from the kids and Ed ... from the bar (of course) - a good quarter mile away!  Ed apparently was telling stories from the "good ole' days" - you know the early 70's .... as Tanya reminded us - she wasn't even a glimmer in her mother's eye yet!!  Oh - we are getting old!! But the stories I must admit are pretty entertaining!!

Dale and I had a good time making homemade pizza for the gang! 

Kind of a funny thought - for being in such a secluded place we went back to our ways and got wrapped up in the social aspects of our culture.  

Life is good .... 

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