The Voyage of the Mighty Tenho: October 2014

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

summer on the boat

Couldn't make it any longer...we rented out the house and moved back onto the boat for the summer. Kids & John loved being on the water and Ms. I-hate-long-commutes (me) got used to the drive from Annapolis to DC every day. Coming home to the family on the boat, swimming in the marina pool and an evening drink watching the boats on Back Creek made it well worth the drive. But now we're back in DC, kids are in 5th & 8th grade and boat time is limited to weekends. Hugo's getting tired of writing every English paper about our trip, but he found this great quote for his last paper:

"Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks." -- Daria Werbowy

Maggie bringing home a friend from
another liveaboard boat family

Hugo & friends being pulled behind Tenho...
and finding a new use for fenders

This night heron was a frequent morning visitor in summer

In September we said goodbye to Skeeker,

our constant companion from 1998 to 2014

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.