June 20, 2013
I forgot to mention to everyone, I did something gross when we were in dive class, the instructors were telling people that it was okay to pee in our suits while in the water because it would warm us up, well I pee'd in my suit while out of the water (by the way, taking a wet suit off just to pee is a pain in the ass) and i had to pee really bad. I realized why the instructors told us to do it in the water because when I did it out of the water the pee stayed in the suit, went down my leg, and FILLED my boot, which I then had to remove to empty the pee out of. Also, I understand completely how gross this story is, but it was also really funny when it happened.
June 19, 2013
For the past 9 days, Sierra Crupe and I have been taking in about 500 calories a day, which is well below the recommended daily caloric intake of 2500 calories. But today, we ate and drank like kings. Ribs, fried chicken, stuffed green peppers, green beans, broccoli and cheese, AND a large bottle of wine and Munster cheese. I think we achieved the recommended caloric intake today.
June 18, 2013
Our first day of work was....well it had some up's and downs. We are now, not only owners of our own business, but we are also now temp employees for the Chesapeake Boat Basin where our sail boat is. So we started our day working for the marina, worked for 2 hours, then we went to our first customer and talked pricing. From there we suited up, and Sierra drops her goggles into the water, which sank fast into dark, murky water. She was pretty upset, as well she should have been. So she did cleaning with borrowed goggles. We cleaned the bottom of a 40 foot boat, which is actually a pretty big boat for our first day. Everything went really well, we finished up, tore our gear down, the boat owners were going to pay us by credit card, so Sierra goes and gets the phone and card reader and the phone falls into the water, and it falls much faster than the goggles. Phone lost. Contacts lost. Sim card lost. Money we put on the phone two days ago, lost. Phone pictures lost. Payment from said boat owners credit card, lost. LUCKILY, the owner was able to write us a check, of course their from Texas, so now we have an out of state check. So we had to go into town and open a bank account, which will actually help us, because now we can make loan payments through this bank, to Wesbanco back home. We also were paid enough to purchase a new phone, which did not have the same number as the old phone, the number that is on all the flyers we passed out last week. FORTUNATELY, we were able to get the number AND the money switched to the new phone. So all in all, it was a rough start, but a great learning experience. I can't wait till the next job!!!
May 5, 2013
Update: Sierra and I are official SCUBA divers. Yesterday we did two consecutive 10 minute dives and a maximum depth of 16 feet, and today we did two consecutive 20 minute dives at a max depth of 30 feet, that's almost 10 meters! The temperature change at deeper depths was really awesome to experience. Sierra saw one bass one the first day, but visibility was much better the second day. Choppy waters, but Smithfield has an awesome set of lakes at Friendship Park.
May 1, 2013
Update: So me and Sierra Crupe finish our dive classes this weekend! After that, we will be in the Wheeling area only for about another month. And then we will be heading back down to our sail boat in Kilmarnock Virginia. From there we will be working on getting our own small dive business and gaining lots of dive experience, as well as getting our feet in as many doors as we can. We're pretty excited about it all, but we're still tying to stay grounded and very focused. We've been working pretty hard on our plans and getting everything in order. At this point, with the amount of time, work, and money we've put into this, failure has no place in our vocabulary. I have to give much thanks to my parents, who have given us a roof over our head and put up with us through all of this. Also a big thanks to my aunt Nora Britton Haugh who has fed our ambition to go out, work hard, and achieve our goals. A major thank you goes to Andy Britton and Marti Wendel, because without them, we probably wouldn't be capable of doing what we are doing. And a huge thank you goes out to Chesapeake Boat Basin for taking care of our boat over the winter, helping us, teaching us, going out of their way to make sure we succeed in sailing.
April 14, 2013
Thank you Sierra Crupe for helping me find my path. I could never have begun to accomplish the dreams I had without a friend like her. I've meet so many people in life, but none of them have supported me and pushed me the way she has. If I had more friends in my life like Sierra I'm pretty sure I would be president of the entire world by now. But since I don't, I'm satisfied with what she's helped me accomplish thus far, and I'm excited for what we'll accomplish together in the future as the team we've become.
September 22, 2012
I got to get into the water with our boat yesterday to scrape barnacles. It's something I've wanted to do to a boat for a long time and now. Swam under the boat and touched the keel. The water here is about 75 to 80 degrees and the temp outside is about 80 degrees, so it was pretty decent. Didn't get stung by any jelly fish and no little crabbies bothered me, even though one was crawling along the underside of the boat.
September 20, 2012
We're going to practice anchoring tonight. It'll be our first time so we're a little nervous. But we meet a some people here in Indian creek that's been giving us some really good advice about anchoring. We pretty much need to be meteorologists to be good sailors. We were addressed as captains for the first time yesterday. I don't think we can professionally be called that just yet, but it was still kind of cool. This anchoring thing is serious though because its pretty much all or nothing. If we do it wrong, our boat could be onshore in the morning which would end our adventures pretty damn quick, or if the wind changes direction in the middle of the night it can be bad for us. So wish us luck! We'll try and call home tonight to let you all know how it went. Love everyone!
September 13, 2012
Preparing to set sail in two days. We've been getting our boat completed, I learned how to wire the lights up and we got the batteries fully charged. We had some problems with our motor, but we got that all taken care of. And we have our first and second day already charted out. I lost a pair of glasses to the sea.
August 22, 2012
Received our solar charger for our cell phone and ipod yesterday. And we have a solar panel on the side of our sailboat, which will charge our batteries. We are all hooked up, with a lot of other stuff as well. We're home though in WV, but only for about 2 weeks. Then it's back to VA, and then sailing to southern FL. Wish us luck!
July 30, 2012
First day of class! Going out on the water today!
July 29, 2012
Made it to Deltaville safe and sound. Start are first class tomorrow morning at 9am.
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