home sweet home
Winters in and around the Bay seem colder as I get older. While January has been somewhat mild, December was brutal. More cold days will follow in February and March sure as death and taxes. Then we will have that long slow Chesapeake spring that tries to warm to summer like the little engine that could.
For the past seven winters my response to the cold weather stimulus has been to be in south Florida as much as possible. One season we rented a condo. For three winters we were on and off our trawler while still working. We sold the trawler to buy a condo as full retirement approached. and so we spent three winters in the condo.
The world of condo politics became a bit much. At the same time we longed for a cruising boat again. So we sold the condo and bought our current cruising boat, a Back Cove 37. We took her down the ICW last November and once again our winter home is a boat!