Posted on May 5, 2015, in Uncategorized and tagged american sailing association, ASA, boat, catamaran, cruising, family, freedom, friends, guests, helia, Helia 44, Hunter S. Thompson, leaving, Let It Be, live aboard, moving, nature, navigation, sailboat, sailing, security. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
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Well put. Exciting challenges up ahead.
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Thanks, Amy. I keep reading your posts and learning new stuff! Such a learning curve, but exciting.
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Hey guys! So excited to find you! My husband and I are getting ready to pick up our brand new Helia in La Rochelle in July and Suky Cannon let me know you are out there with a Helia. We’re in the planning stages of commissioning all the work on our boat post-production and creating the incredibly long list of things we need to buy. We also have just ordered our genniker in all red, and I see yours is red too — we love the look of it, so we’re happy we made that choice. I’m looking forward to seeing what you learn about your Helia along the way 🙂
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Hi Tasha! How exciting for you. A brand new Helia will be fabulous! We have had ours (hull #4) in charter since March 2013 but we are removing it from charter Sept. 1st. We too have a list of things to do to “de-charterize” our boat. We plan on heading to Puerto del Ray on Puerto Rico late in September and have the work done there.
We anticipate about 6 weeks of work in PR, then mid to late November we will begin cruising the Caribbean. We expect to sail the Leeward and Windward Islands until hurricane season 2016.
We wish you the very best of luck and hope you love your Helia. We are very please with how she sails and think the helm is a fabulous lay out.
We would love to meet you if you will be in any of these areas. Do you know your plans yet?
If you don’t already follow it, Out Chasing Stars is also a Helia and David and Amy sailed their boat from La Rochelle to Florida. They are great and their blog has a ton of info which may help you.
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Opps! I am sure we have mentioned you guys to each other, but maybe didn’t do a formal invite. Tasha, Frank & Mary Grace live(d) in Coppell TX and we met up with them in Feb 2014 after David and Frank chatted via Cruiser’s Forum. We also got to see them in March of this year when we were in Dallas. We are planning on meeting up with them in Tortola around Nov 1 (yay!).
Mary Grace, we met Tasha and Ryan at the Miami boat show this year as they were considering the Helia. They are awesome, fun people and we’re super excited to meet up with them, at some undetermined future point in their Helia life! 🙂
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Thanks, Amy. You have mentioned Tasha before so no lack of intro on your part. I simply forgot but remembered after I looked at the blog. We look forward to meeting in person! Best of luck w the Helia, Tasha. We are certainly happy w ours.
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