We boarded Pisces The Catamaran on December 24, 2024 and pointed her south in a part shakedown, part healing and grieving trip. Notes are pulled from our handwritten, on board log book. Crew are:

Captain Clay (captain and owner of Sail & Surf Adventures, married to Ally); call sign Captain OhNo

First Mate Ally (head chef & lead investigator of all maritime mysteries, married to Clay, owner of Daily Magic); call sign Captain Popcorn

Second Mate Carly (Ally’s mom, Clay’s mother-in-law, one-woman cleaning crew of Pisces); call sign Lieutenant Swabs

Dahlia (the cutest ship cat); call sign DD

* there is a very important and traumatic and magical process of getting Pisces that we are working on sharing here. We figured if we waited to start updating until we figured out those words though, we might never start updating at all. Know that there was a before and an after and this trip is part of our grieving process for our brother/son/friend Jacob. *

12/25/24 Christmas Day

0614 Christmas chai on Christmas morning at anchorage!

0632 First present is opened. Easy morning with delicious boat meal (Captain OhNo speciality), thoughtful gifts, memories of Jacob

1100 pull anchor and head into the Chesapeake Bay

1150 mainsail hoisted for the first time underway!

1405 Lt. Swabs cleans the helm windows which increases visibility by 100%

1435 Wolftrap Lighthouse spotted. Captain OhNo shares about how Jacob loved fishing near this lighthouse

1614 anchor for the night in Mobjack Bay. Declare land directly off our bow “Christmas Island”. It is not an island.

1659 Stunning sunset

1701 Captain OhNo fixes a small diesel leak in the heater

1800 Lights Out