Where did the summer go?

Well, we've been here at the Oconto Yacht Club now for 6 months. Tomorrow morning's forecast low is 38°. Where has the summer gone?

It's time to pull the Shangri-La out of the water, winterize and shrink wrap it for the winter. It's time to get our mini-storage in order so I can get everything, including our old Ford Ranger, tucked away for the winter. It's time to start thinking about heading south for the winter.

This winter we are planing on going to Gulfport, MS. We found a mobile home/RV community called Southern Oaks Mobile Home & RV Community costing $410 a month. It's about 10 miles from where Barb's daughter Angel lives in Biloxi. We'll stay there for 4 to 5 months, then a month or two in New Iberia, LA before heading back up here, via Oklahoma City, to Oconto next spring.

En-route to Gulfport, we are planing a stop in Lenoir City, TN to visit my friend John Winter. John rebuilt the cabin top and installed the new windows in our boat last winter and summer before moving to Tennessee.

Cruise Blog

This summer we will be spending a lot of time on our vintage yacht, the Shangri-La. During the summer months, I'll be posting on the blogs that I have set up for our maritime adventures.

Barbie & Ken's Cruise Blog

m/v Shangri-La Renovation Project


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We are in the water

It's been a lot of work, but, we are in the water. We started tearing out the cabin interior yesterday so we can build that the way we want it.

Oconto Yacht Club

We've been here at the yacht club for a month now and everything is working out fine for us. We are parked in the back next to a tree line where we get an afternoon shade. We are hooked up to 30 amp power through a marine outlet and near-by water. Our gray water (shower/sink) drains into the lagoon, the same as the boats do, and for our black water (sewage), I empty it once a week into my blue port-a-tank and pull it to the boat pump-out.

Politics?

We were told yesterday that the yacht club had been informed by the city that we couldn't "camp" here at the yacht club. Nested among the boats, in and out of the water, in a park like setting, on private property zoned for parks and recreation, I can't understand how we could be bothering anyone. My only guess is someone in this quaint little town must be jealous or upset because they are loosing money or something because we are "camped" here. The club told us that they will address the situation with the city.