Preparing for the Journey
December 20, 2024 People are wondering what we are going to do with a boat in Alabama - perhaps wondering if we have gone crazy! Buying a boat located so far away wasn't planned. In fact even buying a boat wasn't planned. But we loved the Helmsman Pilothouse "Twilight" which we saw in Ottawa in August - and we stumbled upon her sister ship in Gulf Shores and well, it just all fell in place. Buying a boat that is 1,600 miles away does present some challenges. We worried about hurricanes (Helene & Milton both made landfall not far away). We thought about having the boat trucked back to New England. But our immediate reaction was: why put Navigator on a truck and ship it to Maine - only to put it away for the winter? Why not keep her in the warmer Gulf weather? And in fact, knowing that Navigator had already done the Great Loop twice, we knew she was capable of sailing from Alabama back to ...