A Year in Paradise: How We Lived Our Dream - Softcover

Watterson, Stephen Wright

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970616708 ISBN 13: 9780970616708

Publisher: Eagle Cliff Pr, 2001

Synopsis

What is it like to cut loose and sail away for a year?

How do you really do it?

Join them in their Adventure!

Taking their cat along as a referee, Steve and Margaret Watterson spent a year on their 30-foot sailboat traveling from Cleveland, Ohio to the Florida Keys and back. In this book, they describe their experience--the good times and the bad--in order to share it with those who dream of some day cutting off the phone, canceling the paper, and locking the door behind them.

If you have ever wondered how to actually do this, you will enjoy this book. The Wattersons tell how much they spent, how they handled mail, and what charts and cruising guides they used. They cover insurance, how to prepare a boat for this kind of trip, and much more.

About this title

About the Author

The Wattersons live in Bay Village, Ohio. They keep their boat at Sandusky, which is nearby on Lake Erie. They have three children and four grandchildren.

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EXCERPT

FROM THE NEWSLETTER, AUGUST 27th: CHESAPEAKE BAY

We are writing this on the laptop, sitting under the cockpit awning while swinging to our anchor behind a small island on the Sassafras River in the upper Chesapeake. It is late in the day. The trees are black paper silhouettes against the yellow, red, and purple western sky. Waterfowl swim silently, fanning iridescent V-ripples across the still pond. Pukka joins us in the cockpit and watches them with feline intensity. Ice rustles in a glass of Schaeffer's rotgut and water; Mozart gentles the air.

My friends, I must tell you . . . it just does not get any better than this. We will spend time in the Chesapeake. Tomorrow, after checking out Georgetown, up the Sassafras, we will head down Bay. Our plans for the coming weeks include visiting Baltimore's Inner Harbor, stopping at various ports down the fabled Eastern Shore, and sailing up the Potomac River. We plan to anchor in the shadow of the Washington Monument for a week, visiting with our son and daughter-in-law, who live in suburban DC.

For our animal loving friends, Pukka the sea kitty is doing well. She sometimes keeps Margaret awake at night by batting her toys around. She has yet to perform any useful work around the boat, a matter of growing concern for me.

Edition details

• Publisher: Eagle Cliff Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0970616708
• ISBN 13: 9780970616708
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184