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Flying to Iceland

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Tuesday, May 12, 2026 — On Sunday, Eric spent the morning getting the boat ready to be left for 3-weeks. He added more lines, so we had eight lines in total and should be good to go if a freak windstorm blows in. He switched the power to inverter bypass. He also took out the dinghy motor and tested it – it still wasn’t working.

We normally don’t do school on Sundays, but since we weren’t going to be doing school on the trip, Christi and Keith did a lot of school work. Christi also did laundry and made creative meals with the remaining ingredients onboard that wouldn’t last the 3-weeks we’d be gone. We all packed for the trip.

The boys didn’t remember it was Mother’s Day until late morning. Since there hadn’t been enough food left to fully satisfy everyone for dinner, we went to The Loop to supplement the meal. This was the sunset.

Yesterday, in addition to another mega school day, we puttered around the boat getting things organized for our trip. One of the things we did was flush out the sink. Several little jellyfish went to the through hull where the sink was draining into the river. We assumed they were gobbling up the morsels. 

We had a belated Mother’s Day celebration at Longhorn Steakhouse, located in the Ortega shopping center.

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Sightseeing in Downtown Jacksonville, Florida, USA

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Saturday, May 9 — This morning, the clouds were so thick and dark that it felt ominous out. Eric rinsed down boat and set up the new power cords. We went to lunch at a Japanese restaurant called Sushi Bear, located about a mile away. We noted that it was in the same shopping center as West Marine. The food was good, and it was good value for the money.

While we were in the restaurant, Eric’s watch notified him that rain would start in 10-minutes. And it did start exactly in exactly 10-minutes. After we finished eating, his watch said that rain would now stop for the rest of the day. It didn’t stop as promised, but having faith in the weather app, we drove downtown via surface streets. The area we drove through was very pretty, predominately made up of large, older, stately homes. We stopped at a small commercial strip mall so Eric and Keith could get custard at a place called Whit’s Frozen Custard. They both liked their custard.

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Passage from North Palm Beach, Floria to Port Canaveral, Florida, USA

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Friday, May 1, 2026 continued… They took the straps off, then we backed out of the slip and headed south down the ICW. Thankfully we only had to wait 7-minutes for the first bridge to open.

As we feared, the ICW was busy on a Friday afternoon. Lots of speed boats zoomed by and several tiny boats came terrifyingly close to us, but now we’re jaded and don’t freak out when the boats get close like we used to. We were pleased to report that the ride to the Lake Worth inlet was uneventful.

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The Work Done on Kosmos in Seminole Boat Yard, North Palm Beach, Florida, USA — Part 2

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Continued… In the April 12 post, we’d also on the mentioned we having the gaskets in three portholes and in the hatch for the chain locker replaced.

And we’d also mentioned that the last three original through hulls were also being replaced.

There were quite a few more things done in the yard that we haven’t mentioned before:

They replaced the hose from the main engine to the water heater. It was a two person job, required a lot of boat yoga, and was kind of messy. Eric was glad that project was done; he was worried about a getting a leak in the hose. They said the old hose was definitely ready to be changed. They replaced it with a much stronger hose than was there before.

The work that Eric was most excited about was that they connected the inverter to the air conditioning circuit and added a new switch. With this upgrade we can run one aircon unit at anytime with a simple switch at the aircon panel — this means we can run AC in the pilot house while at sea without having to turn the generator on. Or, when at anchor, we can run the AC downstairs for a few minutes before bed to make it more easier to fall asleep without having to run the generator and all the units. Since we find it difficult to function when it is hot and humid, this will be a major improvement to quality of life.

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The Work Done on Kosmos in Seminole Boat Yard, North Palm Beach, Florida, USA — Part 1

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Dawn on Friday, May 1

Today was the 17th anniversary of the completion of circumnavigation. But it was a busy day, so we didn’t have much of a chance to reflect. Kosmos was supposed to be put back in the water today, so the first thing we did upon waking up was to pack up our stuff and check out of the hotel. We went to the boat and dropped off our stuff. We saw that the painting work was completed, but they hadn’t removed the plastic yet (more on the painting below).

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