15 January 2006
We returned to San Diego for 4 weeks to meet our shipment of furniture, household items, books, etc. that need to be put into storage.  We have kept things in Belgium that we plan to take onto Tenaya.

20 December 2005
Time to move out of our bright and airy apartment in Antwerp where we lived for almost 3 years and shipped most of our things back to San Diego, California.
We found a small apartment, still near the center of Antwerp, that we are renting for the next few months.  It is a stepping stone to get used to living in a smaller space.

4 & 5 December 2005
A quick flight took us to Gothenburg, Sweden where we drove to the Hallberg-Rassy yard. See About Tenaya. How did we choose the name TENAYA?

16-22 September 2005
We both completed an American Sailing Association "Bareboat Charter" course in San Diego.  This meets the International Competency Certificate requirements and the qualification to charter and skipper a sailboat up to 50'. Our instructor was Lee Pearce and the course was excellent.

16-17 & 29-30 August 2005
Royal Yachting Association Day Skipper Class - North Sea. We visited all the harbors on the Belgium coast (5) and Dunquerque in France. The course included a night cruise from Zeebrugge to Nieuwpoort where it seemed the fishing boats were trying to catch us.

11 June 2005
Ordered a Hallberg-Rassy 40 for delivery in March 2006.

After we ordered our boat, the plan that Jim would continue working a few more years no longer seemed reasonable. I set my retirement date at the end of the year.

Hallberg-Rassy

1 June 2005 & 6 June 2005
Completed Royal Yachting Association Helmsman course out of Nieuwpoort, Belgium

October 2004
We made the decision to buy a boat when Jim retires and try living on board. It began as a 5 year plan, but over the next 6 months it changed to something Jim wanted to do as soon as possible.