No boat, whether it's brand new or a middle-aged lady like Nine of Cups, is without problems and issues. While we have continually worked to keep her shipshape, there is always a 'to-do' list of things that need attention, repair or replacement. Last week, I listed all her features, and this week, I only thought it fair to list all the things I know of that need addressing.
Read MoreWe’ll be running parallel blogs for awhile. From There to Here will continue to provide the highlights of our years aboard Nine of Cups. David will regale you in the coming weeks with his repairs, projects and spruce-up of Nine of Cups and concurrently, we’ll talk about our wrestling with all the possibilities for the next adventure. Now that we’ve decided to sell Nine of Cups and make a change, we need to decide exactly what it is we want to do.
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We must say we’ve been overwhelmed by the well wishes and hundreds of comments and emails that followed the announcement that we were selling Nine of Cups or as sailors put it ... “swallowing the hook”. I guess the important point to make to everyone, especially our readers, is that we’re just turning the page and starting a new chapter. It’s not the end of the book!
Though the decision to sell Nine of Cups and move on was a difficult one, derived after months of deliberation, now that the decision has been made, we’re not sad, by any means. On the contrary, we’re excited about the new adventure we’ve planned. We’ve not made the decision because we have health issues or we’re feeling too old to sail. After 18 years aboard Cups, we’re exhilarated about starting a new and different adventure. We’re feeling much the same excitement and anticipation we felt when we decided to sell up and sail off 20 years ago.
We’re in a similar situation actually. We’re making timelines, plans and lists and checking them off. Except instead of winding down professional careers like last time, we’re winding down our sailing careers. We’re getting Cups ready for new owners, making her shipshape while at the same time looking, planning, anticipating and putting things in order to make the transition to a new life.
Nope, we have no intention of staying still. No intention of sitting in rocking chairs and knitting mittens or whittling little wooden animals. Oh, it may eventually come to that, but we reckon we’ve still got a few good decades left in us and there’s a big world out there just waiting to be explored.
So what’s the new adventure and how did we decide? We’ll tell you all about it this time next week. In the meantime, we’ll continue with our There to Here series, bring you new travelogue pages on the website and David has plans to regale you with lots of Cups info and project progress as he readies our girl for her new life. Stick around and keep traveling with us … just a little further.
Hi there and welcome to Just A Little Further!
We are David and Marcie Lynn and we've lived aboard our Liberty 458 cutter-rigged sailboat since 2000.
What began as an urge to travel slowly and economically at our own pace ended up an adventure of a lifetime.
Well, here we are ... nearly 90,000 miles under the keel, 5 continents, 5 Great Southern Capes, 36 countries and almost two decades later, still taking one passage at a time and going just a little further.
