From Alan : Sigmachi View from the crew...Getting ready for first ICWW trip to Florida

   SIGMACHI, is "on the hard" (and safe) at Krentz Marine Railway in Callao, Virginia to have her bottom painted with tropical formula, the anchor windlass repaired, as measured up for installation of a generator. Jeanne and Alan hope to take her South in late October. First stop will be Alan's former town, Norfolk, then head via the Dismal Swamp Canal to Elizabeth City, NC to "start" the Albermarle Sound Loop and then make a southward turn to Florida. Perhaps the Florida jaunt will take them to Jacksonville and "up" the St. John's River, then south to maybe Jupiter. 

Then maybe take the canal through Lake Okeechobee and to Ft. Meyers. After that they may head south on the west coast of Florida, to Florida Bay then down to the Keys. They hope to attend a big party for AGLCA "Loopers" that friends throw every February at Banana Bay Resort in Marathon. Eventually they will come northward on the east coast of Florida back to the Chesapeake Bay. Plans for next summer are unsettled....maybe head north to the Erie Canal and the Thousand Islands  and America's Great Loop.  Only the Shadow and time will tell!

Sept 28th and 29th are Alan and Jeanne's 2nd anniversary dates....Fun story! Severn Inn in Annapolis was the site of their first date and 5 weeks later...the were married at this grand waterfront restaurant's docks on the north side of the Severn River.across from the USNA in Annapolis, Md.  They have since made visiting this beautiful site at least once a year.
 
Sept 28th Alan and Jeanne will be part of a cadre of MTOA members "manning that boating organization's boot at the internationally acclaimed TRAWLER FEST in Baltimore's upscale "East Inner Harbor."

Tight Lines!
Alan and Jeanne Cecil
M/V SIGMACHI



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