January 21, 2025

Popcorn wakes early to drive herself in LBP to the Oyster Rock dock so she can go with Swabs and Grandma Popcorn to water aerobics that Grandma Popcorn still teaches at 87! Swabs and Popcorn spend the morning provisioning for the boat at Walmart and also pick up the new engine mounts for the starboard engine project. Popcorn and Swabs load up the dinghy to the absolute brim with groceries and clean laundry and as Popcorn is working on starting the engine, the plug in the dinghy bottom comes out and river water starts pouring into the dinghy! Chaos ensues. Popcorn successfully replugs the dinghy and the bails the water out. Popcorn dinghies back to Pisces at anchor with fresh bagels from The Bagel Dock along with all the other tasty provisions! The reduced Pisces crew (OhNo and Popcorn) prepare for the incoming snow storm.

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.*