Retirement............and back to school

What job ?

Kirstin and I enjoyed a wonderful dinner last month to commemorate her retirement. You can see her mixed emotions as she contemplates her future life of cruising the high seas.

Today she started the continuing education part of her retirement........"Canvas State". She is spending a week in Sarasota learning how to sew yacht canvas. It might sound like a trivial and obscure past-time, but anyone who lives on a boat understands how important and in-demand this skill is............especially in the Caribbean.

While her plan is to work to keep LORIENT's canvas and interior looking snappy, it's crossed our minds that for extremely close friends we might now have something we can trade for Chardonnay.