All Aboard - Aye Aye Mate!

The boat trip that we are about to take....beginning tomorrow, promises to be a fun filled adventure. I always have a sense of ‘giddy anticipation’ on our boating trips but in the past some have been......very distressing.

I wrote a little book of inspiration in February called....”Cheer Up! Things Can Get Worse!” The book was about a week long trip in the ‘Big‘ boat when simply everything went wrong.
At one point I was sitting on the fly bridge talking to my ‘famous’ brother, Dockie, on the Ship to Shore, GPS in the other hand and my Bible open in my lap reading the Psalms for reassurance. The depth finder was falling between 2 to 3 feet of water on draught striken Okeechobee and we required about 2 1/2 feet of water for our 32 foot boat, The Milagro.
It had been chaotic like that during the entire week of boating. Time and again we faced one obstacle after another....either mechanically or environmentally.
At the end of the little book about that week my summary was simple.
The abnormal had become.....normal.
We survived.

Now you may ask, why would any sane person subject themselves to such risk?
I can’t answer that sensibly.
All I know is when a trip is planned....Big or Little Boat.....and the call of....”All Aboard” is heard....
....I always answer with a Smile, “Aye. Aye Mate.”

See ya in a week, mates:)

P.S. You could pray for us!