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Boy it gets cold here quick! No wonder people clear out after Labor Day. Woke up to 54 degrees and a cold wind. When you don’t wear shoes and you’re drying a damp surface, that makes for cold piggy toes. Luckily the wind had dried most of the boat for me, so I was ableContinue reading “Light work day”

My first day on the boat without my boss. I sleep in til 7am. Wash and dry the boat till noon. Miscellaneous chores. My boss texts me…how was your first day without me? I send him a video of me dancing on every part of the boat, to music he doesn’t listen to. Then IContinue reading “The boat is mine”

What a surreal feeling to have the first time ever being to New York, fall on the 19th Anniversary of 9-11. I sat on a chair in the middle of Time Square, to just soak in my surroundings. I sat there alone and quiet for a good hour. Every once in a while I’d hearContinue reading “9-11-20”

My boss flies out in a few days for the city because it’s the end of the season. He’ll then travel around the US until the end of October, rejoining me in North Carolina. Then we’ll make our way back to Florida.

He tells me this morning…the season is coming to an end. I fly out day after tomorrow. You’ve worked so hard I want you to enjoy a day on your boat. So he took just me out on the water. We dropped anchor, listened to good music, I jumped into the ocean from the 3rdContinue reading “What a wonderful Boss”

This was a dramatic day. CBC Joey has been at odds with his boss for a while…which I’m learning is typical in this industry. You live in such close quarters. The type of people that own yachts have no problem spending $10,000 to enhance the fun then complain about $50 spent on maintaining the boat.Continue reading “Don’t know why I get Pedi’s”

Today my boss invited captain Billy’s boss out for the day. When we start out, it’s a little breezy and chilly, so they decide to sit inside, while I’m cleaning downstairs. He yells…in front of the guest..,Stacy if you ever leave me, I’m gonna have to propose, and put a huge diamond on your fingerContinue reading “If you ever leave me”

When your hands ring out a chamois 500 times a day…7 days a week..if it rains, probably double that in a day, and then your hands grip a scrub brush for the teak floors or the non skid deck, you find the tips of your fingers become numb, then your wrist aches, then it hurtsContinue reading “When you’re old, doin youngsters work”

My boss is a perfectionist…he’s learned that I am as well. I like my boat to look a certain way. I guess I scare him a bit. He opened up a bottle of red wine on the way home from a beautiful day I’m preparing to dock. Fenders put away…lines arranged neatly on cleats. WhenContinue reading “Coulda been bad”

I have made such wonderful friends here that feel like family. In about 12 days I leave this place never to see any of these wonderful people again. Gila, Captain Harvey, Captain Joey, Captain Billy, captain Russ, Captain John, dock master Lou his daughter Camille, sag harbor yacht yard employee Cecil who greeted me everyContinue reading “Time here is almost over”