January 19, 2025

Crew spends day anchored at Carolina Beach, riding out a wind storm. OhNo and Popcorn venture ashore to attend a recovery meeting and then walk forever trying to find all of the Little Free Libraries. Popcorn stocks up on Little Free Library books, including one on lighthouses for Swabs! Swabs makes great progress on her Art Club. Popcorn learns how to operate LBP!

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.*