Knot Tying in Everyday Life

One of the many skills needed to be an awesome mariner is that of knot tying.  I can remember years ago after we had purchased our very first boat ever, but not yet taken in out on the water as a family.  Only my husband and his friends had taken it out up to this point.  The few days before the planned outing Outdoor Dad and I sat around the dining room table with some rope and tried to figure out how to make a few very basic knots that we would need to know.  Thinking back to those evenings, they were fun and it was exciting to think about the adventures that might be in store for us.  However, with the benefit of hindsight - the two or three knots we practiced (while they got us through the weekend) were woefully inadequate for living on a sailboat and sailing it around. 

We have managed to learn a few more, and can now generally tie the 'correct' knot for the situation.  Or at least a knot that another sailor could recognize and be able to untie and not think we were completely clueless.  But, we have decided that the kids are not going to suffer from the same fate that we have.  And so we have been teaching them a few knots.  Outdoor Boy will probably be pretty far ahead of any other Tiger Scouts at a minimum, I would be willing to bet when the time comes.

Life back in the Pacific North West

It has been quite a while since previous posts, I keep telling myself that I am going to work on it.  And I truly hope to.

Sparing everyone the back-story, I will just start with this week.  We are in the middle of purchasing a 42ft Catalina tri-cabin - woohoo!  It is all but finished, just crossing 't's' and dotting 'i's' on the final documentation and on Saturday we will do the official handing over of the keys and can commence transforming it into our new home.

Yes, you heard that right, we are planning on moving back aboard.  Not sure where we are going to have it moored, somewhere in the Puget Sound should hopefully work, not planning on venturing out to the Pacific and beyond just yet.  :-)  

This is a pretty good reflection of what we have been doing so far.  Re-grouping and enjoying our time back as a family while planning for the next adventure.  Putting all the moving pieces back together while building a new picture of how we want our lives to look going forward.