The Voyage of the Mighty Tenho: chomping at the bit

Sunday, April 13, 2014

chomping at the bit

Tenho has been out of the water since July 2013. It's now April 2014, and we're all chomping at the bit to get back on the water, even if just for the weekends. We'd arranged to have the boat pulled when we got back to the US, assuming that after a year on the boat we'd all be ready to have some shore time. Just the opposite...we all really miss the boat and being on the water. It's funny, I remember reading other blogs from families who'd done similar trips, and I always wondered what their lives were like after the trip, and the blog, ended.

As for us, we moved back into our house in August 2013, and within a month, all the boxes were unpacked, the kids back in school, and I was back at work. Unless you stop to think, it's as if we never left. I think Maggie's transition has been the easiest, while the rest of us have been getting used to more homework/structure at school, job hunting, and the somewhat lost feeling of life without a big adventure on the horizon.

But all in all, we are unbelievably fortunate to have had such an amazing adventure and to have all made it home safely. Skeeker, in particular, is glad to be back home where she can spend evenings in front of her fireplace!

Buffed and bottom painted...ready for launching!

Hugo and Maggie, now 13 and 10

Skeeker back home in front of the fireplace

1 comment:

Anne UrbanekMay 5, 2014 at 4:52 AM
Dear Tessa and John, Hugo and Maggie,
I was often wondering how all of you are doing when a few days ago actually my dad told me that there's a new post on your blog! It was so much fun to read your stories about your trip but it is also really great to hear how you guys are doing back home!
Best wishes from sunny Munich!
Anne
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John, Tessa, Hugo (12) and Maggie (9)

Having spent 10 years in DC, we moved onto the boat in June 2012, with the intent of sailing across the Atlantic to the Mediterranean for a year. As of June 2013, we've sailed from the U.S. (Annapolis, Maryland) to Bermuda, then to the Azores, to Lisbon and down the Atlantic coast of Portugal and Spain, through the Straits of Gibraltar, along the southern coast of Spain (with a quick trip to Morocco) to Ibiza, then Sicily, through the Corinth Canal and Greek islands, winter in Turkey, a few weeks in Israel, with a side trip to Egypt. After a month in the Adriatic in spring, we all sailed to the Azores, where mom, cat and kids left by airplane, leaving John and crew to bring the boat back home to the Chesapeake.