January 23, 2025

After a day and a half snowed in, Popcorn is getting cabin fever. Capt OhNo is happily working on projects but can see the mental and emotional decline of Popcorn. They arrange for Swabs to come to the dock and pick Popcorn up around 11:30am for shore leave. Capt OhNo and Popcorn spend 30 minutes digging out the dinghy from the snow and lowering it into the water and then dinghy to shore in freezing temperatures. Swabs picks up Popcorn and drops off Amazon packages full things for the boat with OhNo who heads back to Pisces at anchor. Popcorn takes a nice hot shower, works on catching up with the blog, spends time with Grandma and Grandpa Popcorn and ultimately decides to stay the night on land. She has a cozy warm evening ashore while Capt OhNo successfully replaces all 4 engine mounts!

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.*