At the end of July I decided to leave the Encore crew. It was just time and I had another job lined up. I was supposed to work until September, go to England, and come back and take this other job but I got antsy (surprise, surprise my last name is gaudet). So as of August 1 I was unemployed, uninsured and happier than ever. I immediately drove to Newport and got on a boa racing that weekend. Turns out I stumbled onto a great one and have raced a bunch with them.
When I finally made it home to see Mom and Dad (ok I really needed to drop off my stuff, I had a truck full) I got to spend some time in Maine and NH and it was great. I went sailing with half the fam. 
I had time to help Missa
move to Balitmore and got to see Julia at the same time. And force her to hang out on a boat.
I even had time to take artsy shots of the Domino sugar factory,
and spend a weekend on Appledore Island (no photos, I thought my camera was gone forever at the bottom of Narragansett, it wasnt, it was in Flurte's tender in Nantucket.)
The next Rima race was in Stamford, the same town that Michelle works in! We raced ~150nm in 30 hours under 8 knots... it was slow to say the least. The more exciting part was the dinghy racing that happened the next day at Michelle's yacht club.
After hanging with M I finally got to fly to England! That other job that I had lined up fell through, and I got to stay quite a bit longer than intended. While I was there I checked London, Cowes, Gibralter, sailing in the med, and Malta off my list of TO DO's.
And I even made it back in time to see
Allison get married and hit up NH for one more hike before taking my new job.
We're based in Antigua and have christmas off.... anyone feel up to traveling with the rest of the world?
