We're Moving to Dana!

Not our house, but our boat! This last weekend Dennis Hughes and I drove up to Wilmington to the Lighthouse Marina to check out a temporary slip opportunity as the Sea Scouts were making strong comments about us leaving our current Newport home.

Barbara, the Lighthouse owner, had interviewed both Dennis and myself over the phone to make sure we'd be a good fit for her marina. It was sort of like being interviewed to rent a room in someone's home. But Barbara liked us well enough and we signed up for a minimum two month stay at her marina and we'd planned for a very long Saturday (May 14) to motor/sail the boat up the coast to her new temporary berth.

But Dennis made an agreement with Barbara to not cash our check until today, to give us time to a final check with the Dana marina to see where we were on the waiting list. On Saturday, I think we had moved from 15th to 9th as slips became available at the first of the month and those on the waiting list could either pony up the cash or forgo their place in line. Dennis called Tuesday and we were now number 2! And they were still calling those on the waiting list.

Dennis went down to the harbor personally today and the answer is that we have a slip!! So in ten days, we'll only have to sail from Newport to Dana Point rather than the forty miles or so that it was up to the LA harbor. We've found a home! And, I think Barbara will get a bouquet of flowers!