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Midwest Nice
Bloomington, IN
Working “reboatly” with my wife, Meredith, aboard our sailing catamaran, Midwest Nice. Spending summers in New England, winters in Florida and the Bahamas. Always keen to buddy boat. Happy to help with questions on getting started cruising, working aboard, etc. 🤙🏻
Our final passage on Midwest Nice was one for the books — probably our best ever, with SOG up to 12kt and (mainly) perfect wind, though not without some fish-feeding and countercurrent (whoops). After two glorious months around Green Turtle Cay in the Bahamas, we staged at Spanish and jumped off the bank at Walker’s … 48hrs later we made the Charleston jetties. Celebrating with friends tonight in the town where this all started two years ago almost exactly. Then, she goes on the market… they say the best two days of a boaters life are the day they buy the boat and the day they sell it — I’m doubtful 😉 If you or someone you know is interested, hit a brother up. More info coming soon. For the rest of you, fair winds and following seas ⛵️
Welcomed to Green Turtle by … five green turtles (not pictured). Wasted no time finding the watering hole ashore. Overall good trip from West End. Great Sale was lovely but forecast did me dirty and anchorage ended up rolly. Sailed for the first time in six (!) months when we left Great Sale, then fired up the iron ponies for a motor sail to get in before sundown.
Mark asked whether he could surf our wake. I asked his preferred speed. Last bit of the ICW done … now we wait for a window to cross to Los Bahamas.
Good ol’ #boatwoes got us stuck in St. Augustine another month(ish), so channeling our inner @elayna.carausu, @rileywhitebum, The Wynns, and the untold numbers of others who’ve gone before us in this brave life called cruising, to have some fun with it 🤙🏻 Meanwhile, Mer needs to calm her tits on the wicker furniture buying, and Imma have a fuggin’ PhD in pirates by the time we leave this GD place 🏴☠️ (love youuu St. Augustine)
TowBoatUS got Midwest Nice to her new slip as we wait for injector system test results. With the big boat laid up, gotta get out there with the lil’ boat 🤙🏻 …where I of course found we have what should just be a dirty fuel filter. And what I think is a Warham. Full day in my book 👌🏻
Impromptu ICW putt-putt from Fernandina Beach to St. Augustine ended with a lovely greeting by (what I hope is just) a fussy injector and Mr. Osprey.
Quick little motor from Charleston to Fernandina Beach with @Sunshine and @Brandy_Kaikoa on Kaikoa, plus a few others. Also a word of warning on the turtle pic — “false hooked fish” might be a turtle, so watch out and take care with the retrieve. We were sad to find this little guy on the end of our line, but the hook didn’t even go into his thick skin and he swam away very, very quickly.
Looking for crew Charleston to Florida — many hands make short watches! We have room aboard our Lipari 41 sail cat, SV Midwest Nice, as we sail from Charleston to Florida sometime between December 28 - January 6 (our time off from work). Check out my comment below and, if you’re interested and available, shoot me a DM or reply here with your experience and any logistics considerations you have. And a fun fact if you’re keen 😉
Have dock, will socialize ✌🏻 Been great to see Michigan friends, get some R&R, and catch up on maintenance here in CHS. Most importantly Mer found a dog to play fetch with her. She only hit their owners’ Porche once with the tennis ball that was kindly provided to her.
Nice motor down from Georgetown to Charleston with @robsanger and @sailingvoila — but not before a lovely evening of new friends, oysters, and aperitifs aboard Voila. So lovely I forgot to get a group photo… or maybe it was because of Hervé’s story of piercing his hand with an oyster knife🩸😅 Apparently nothing some cognac can’t fix 🥃
