January 11, 2025

0500 The storm that the crew tied up for hits with high winds and sleet. Popcorn checks the dock lines and fencers to make sure everything is secure.

0730 Capt OhNo and Swabs do their morning writing. Popcorn washes the decks using the residual rainwater from the storm because the water at the docks is turned off.

11:30 - 1530 Capt OhNo spends most of the day with a boat surveyor who is on board to assess Pisces for insurance purposes.

1300 Swabs and Popcorn head to the laundry mat to do laundry for the boat. They have some mischief riding around in the laundry cart.

1400 Swabs and Popcorn brave the freezing cold to see if they can locate the Library (not yet realizing it had relocated). They do not find it but they do take a look around the historic village with period style houses from the late 1700’s and 1800’s.

1730 Swabs and Popcorn have Art Club!

1920 Beautiful sunset off the stern of the boat. Pisces stays the night at the dock because winds are still very strong and the current is really swift in the anchorage.

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); call sign 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.*