CHARMED FOR SALE

It's all good!  However, the end of the hiatus from work is near.
After two years of extended cruising Debbie and I are landing on the
west coast of Florida, with intentions of making the
Bradenton/Sarasota/Tampa Bay area home again.  From the starting point
of southern New England, we got down to the Florida Keys, then back up
to Maine.  Then we did the Bahamas:  the Exumas, the Jumentos all the
way to Duncan Town as far south as insurance allowed, the Abacos.  We
did the Chesapeake the three times we passed it.  In the middle of it
all we got to Bermuda and back, with great friends on their boat.  The
adventure has been grand.  Not as grand as some of yours, but grand
enough to last us until real retirement.

So Charmed will soon get a slip assignment in the Twin Dolphin Marina.
 And as was always the plan, Charmed will soon go up for sale.  Until
she sells, we will weekend and vacation on the west coast of Florida.
Once she sells we may think about an AE 33 or a J105 that will get
around the buoys on Wednesday evenings and Sunday afternoons a bit
better than the IPs.  Hopefully, we will still get to sail Island
Packets, cruising with some of you and delivering for some of you. IP
makes the best boats. IPers make the best friends!

(As a footnote, Debbie moves ashore a tad sooner than me.  In May I am
off across the Atlantic, from Florida to Portugal via Bermuda and the
Azores as crew on an IP 485. Yee Haw!)

Craig and Debbie Roser
CHARMED IP 440.33
Lying Pelican Bay east of Cayo Costa
www.svcharmed.blogspot.com