Irene on the Eastern Seaboard of North America
Dear Reader, We have neglected you. We’re sorry. We had good intentions but were thwarted by laziness, exhaustion, and writer’s block. We will do better in the future. When we last wrote, back in April of 2018, we wrote of being fresh out of the Arctic (which had actually happened in September 2017) and we were looking forward to: 1) Getting warm again. 2) Getting some help with replacing three broken motor mounts. 3) Getting to a suitable winter spot, far enough south to get some work done on the boat over the winter. All of that did happen – and more, of course – while Irene first travelled SW down the Eastern Seaboard all the way to Miami and beyond then back NE all the way to Nova Scotia, and finally finished the cruising season with an Eastbound crossing of the North Atlantic to Ireland in August. Here are our impressions of that time: Southbound Irene arrived in Maine October of 2017 needing help. We were limping under power with three broken motor mounts on o