Lori Lloyd and I are sitting in JFK killing time until our flight to Grenada in a couple of hours. We are heading there to join her high school classmate and lifelong pal Andy Engle and his wife Patty Morell aboard their Leopard 46 catamaran, Arabella.
It seems like we barely got our bags unpacked from the last trip before packing for this one. We weren't planning on taking off on another adventure so soon, but Lori checked in with Andy after we returned from the Pacific Northwest, and he said that it was now or never.
Andy and Patty have been cruising Arabella in the Caribbean since he retired from the Navy two years ago. They spent this year's hurricane season in Grenada, and now that the threat from those storms is waning, they are ready to head north through the Lesser Antilles and need a couple of crew.
Neither Lori nor I have visited the southern Caribbean, and we've never sailed on a large catamaran. It's a great opportunity to do both and spend some time with good friends. It will also complete my 2018 journey through the dark side of the force. Power boats and catamarans.... Who would have thunk it!
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