{"id":4045,"date":"2015-01-31T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T13:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2015-01-31T13:04:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T13:04:29","slug":"pandoras-plans-shaping-up-and-a-banana-named-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=4045","title":{"rendered":"Pandora\u2019s plans shaping up and a banana named Bob."},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Saturday morning and it\u2019s shaping up to be a cloudy day in nearly southern Florida.\u00a0 We are still in North Palm Beach and were treated to lovely sunrise a moment ago. \u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/span>Yes, I know it looks like any other sunrise. \u00a0I guess you had to be there and we are.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ll be here for another day but will likely mosey on down the short distance to Boca Raton on Sunday.\u00a0 We have been pretty vague about making decisions on what our plans for the next few months will be but I think that we have a pretty good feel for things now. \u00a0\u00a0Well, it\u2019s only been a month since we left our \u201cland home\u201d and headed south.\u00a0 But hey, we haven\u2019t been aboard even a full three weeks.\u00a0 These things take time.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to make decisions fast on a boat that only goes about 7kts, right?<\/p>\n

A key determination on what\u2019s next for us is that the Axel, the son of our good friend\u2019s Kari and Gerhardt is getting married in Columbia SC in later April so we will surely have to be back in FL early enough to make that event.\u00a0 Between now and then, our plans are to continue heading south to Miami and the Miami Boat Show, where we will be volunteering to help out at the booth of the Seven Seas Cruising Association, a group that we have become pretty active in.\u00a0 This is the group that we do the spring Gam in Essex, the three day SSCA, Summer Solstice Gam each June.<\/p>\n

Anyway, we will help out at the Miami show.\u00a0 An added benefit of working the booth is that we tickets to the show for the day and yet only have to work for part of the day.\u00a0 So, you have to ask yourself if it\u2019s altruism or the free show tickets.\u00a0 You decide\u2026\u00a0 I have wanted to see that show for years as it\u2019s where the \u201cbig boys\u201d buy their toys. \u00a0\u00a0Tickets or not, we will have a nice day.<\/p>\n

After that we will continue to head down to the keys and will probably make our first major stop Key Largo.\u00a0 After that, I can\u2019t say that I know enough to say but probably Marathon, a spot that is the winter home of many cruisers.\u00a0 We\u2019d also love to head to Key West but have heard that the anchorages are pretty exposed and the marinas very expensive.\u00a0 Not sure how to handle that but perhaps we\u2019ll splurge in a marina for a few days.<\/p>\n

We are also looking forward to a visit from our son Rob and perhaps his fianc\u00e9 Kandice in late February as they will likely visit us for a few days in the Keys.\u00a0 And Chris, who knows, as he\u2019s pretty busy these days meeting with investors and potential business partners in New York on a new business that he\u2019s trying to launch.\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019d love to see him to but he\u2019s pretty pressed for time.<\/p>\n

So, all of that will take us to March when we will likely head up to the northern Bahamas for a month or so.\u00a0 After that, back to the states.<\/p>\n

One thing I haven\u2019t written about much in the last month is our quest to purchase the Aerodyne 47 and sell Pandora.\u00a0 We did have the survey of Ariel a few weeks ago and while a few \u201cissues\u201d came up, as is so often the case when a boat is surveyed, they seem to have been sorted out and we are planning to move forward with the purchase in the spring.\u00a0\u00a0 Pandora will soon be listed with a broker in North Carolina so I guess that we\u2019ll be showing the boat a bit while we are in Florida. \u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s a bit weird to be selling Pandora as she\u2019s such a great boat.\u00a0 I have to say that I have mixed emotions but the Aerodyne is even more amazing.\u00a0 Oh yeah, I have written about names for the new boat and we\u2019ve decided to keep Pandora as so many know us by that name.\u00a0 Besides, we have monogrammed towels, cocktail glasses, fenders and even an entrance rug.\u00a0 Besides, the name is memorable. Wasn\u2019t that easy?<\/p>\n

As you can imagine, moving Pandora to NC, closing on the new boat, attending our friend\u2019s son\u2019s wedding and getting that boat up to New England in the spring will certainly pose some interesting logistics in the coming months. \u00a0\u00a0Hey, after more than 30 years of moving boats around I am, somewhat, used to all of that.\u00a0 Can you say \u201cwant to crew with me in the spring, on two boats?\u201d<\/p>\n

Yikes, I am getting a “logistics” headache.\u00a0 I won\u2019t think about that right now\u2026\u00a0 For now, I\u2019ll just focus on the next few days heading to Boca.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, yesterday we had a lovely lunch out with our friends Linda and Richard.\u00a0 Years ago, in a different lifetime I worked with Linda.\u00a0 It was so nice to catch up and talk about \u201cold times\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 How is it that I am now old enough to have \u201cold times\u201d?\u00a0 Hmm\u2026<\/p>\n

The restaurant was a terrific seafood place that also had a retail fish operation.\u00a0\u00a0 The fresh fish was beautifully presented.\u00a0 How about some stone crab claws?\u00a0 They are only $65 a pound.\u00a0 What a deal.\u00a0\"\"<\/a> Interestingly, these claws are \u201charvested\u201d without killing the crab.\u00a0\u00a0 When the crab is caught fisherman only take one of the claws and toss the crab back.\u00a0 And, in about another year they grow their claw back.\u00a0 \u201cHello little crab.\u00a0 Good news, I am going to let you go.\u00a0 The bad news is that I am going to rip your left arm off first.\u201d<\/p>\n

As an interesting side note, when Brenda and I were dating in high school, back in the early 70s, we bought a small banana plant in Westport CT and over the years kept it in our homes and later in a greenhouse that had for over 20 years.\u00a0 While Linda and I were working together in NJ I gave her an offshoot of the plant which she still has in her yard in West Palm Beach.\u00a0 So here\u2019s \u201cBob\u201d the banana bearing fruit in Linda\u2019s garden.\u00a0 Wow, that is one happy banana 42 years later.\u00a0 \"\"<\/a>Actually, I think that \u201cBob\u201d looks pretty good, given his age.\u00a0 So, how old is he in \u201cbanana years\u201d now?<\/p>\n

It was so nice to see Linda again.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a shot of us last year when we met on our last trip south as I forgot to take one yesterday. \u00a0\u00a0You will have to trust me when I say we haven\u2019t aged a bit.\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t we look marvelous?\u00a0 Almost as good good as Banana Bob.\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s fun to think about the \u201cgood old days\u201d however, I\u2019d say that these days are pretty darn good and both “Bobs” are doing fine. \u00a0I am hopeful that the good times will continue to roll for us. \u00a0\u00a0So far, so good.\u00a0 Fingers crossed. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Saturday morning and it\u2019s shaping up to be a cloudy day in nearly southern Florida.\u00a0 We are still in North Palm Beach and were treated to lovely sunrise a moment ago. \u00a0\u00a0Yes, I know it looks like any other sunrise. \u00a0I guess you had to be there and we are. We\u2019ll be here for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4051,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions\/4051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}