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The Patty-o is officially going up for sale this week. She's a beautiful Hunter day sailor, 22 feet, with ample storage space below and plenty of useful accessories. We bought the sailboat after attending sailing school at Lighthouse Landing in Grand Rivers, Kentucky on Kentucky Lake. She was named the Patty-o because we spent the money I had pigeonholed to fix up our outdoor home patio!

It was an intense four day course, and Skip and I were in heated competition to graduate number one in the class. Skip beat me by two points. I still blame it on the fact that I slept on the SWA flight and he studied. We both passed with very high marks, came home and purchased a sailboat on Ebay. Somewhat impulsive.  I told our competitive horse show friends that we were like the people who went to the dude ranch for a week and came home and bought a palomino stallion. Sailing Gunzels!

June 1st marks the official beginning of hurricane season in the Atlantic and any sailboats coming home to the USA from the Bahamas are now LATE. We met several people at Green Turtle Bay in Grand Rivers that left via the Tom Bigbee Waterway in November and returned to the states in spring. Best of both worlds...
We've studied the navigation from Florida to  the BVI and I believe that we will charter a boat and make that trip one winter. Play the video below to see a BVI trip I found posted on You Tube.

        

A spanish verb.

aprovechar (first-person singular present aprovecho, first-person singular preterite aproveché, past participle aprovechado)

1. to take advantage of
2. to make use of
3. to harness
4. to be useful
5. to improve

I came across this wonderful word while reading Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez. To Quote:

"There's a word in Spanish that encompasses all this: aprovechar. It means to use something wisely--be it a sunny day at the beach or leftovers made into a delicious new meal. It's getting full value from life, enjoying all the good that each moment and each thing has to offer."

This is my time to live well.

        

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