Liveaboardagain
A year to the day after declaring Winchelsea dead (to me and my situation), I am living aboard again. She is Alaina's father's Gulf Star 41; a heavy, solid cruising boat with a well appointed, yet simple, interior. He has kept her in Ft. Myers for the past few years while restoring and improving some of the more aged parts of the vessel. Allowing me to live aboard in Sarasota is mutually beneficial; he has wanted to keep her in Sarasota for a season ever since he got the yacht and it is pretty pricey to keep a boat at Marina Jacks. This way, he'll have someone with experience to watch over her and complete a few projects and I'll have a place to live in Sarasota, and thank God, on a boat again. We dropped the hook here yesterday after coming up outside of Sanibel and Captiva islands and into Venice inlet. It was a two day trip with a stop near Cabbage Key; a picturesque island in Pine Island Sound just north of Ft. Myers. This is exactly what I came back east for: gu