It is interesting to see how the Scoot has evolved for different people, becoming more and more of an "individual Scoot", depending on the particular circumstances of the Scooter... 
For a couple of reasons, my own Scoot date is pushed back from this spring, although I am planning and working on still making it happen this year, and it looks very likely to do so.
(Yay!)For my 'revised Scoot', I'm looking at a passage to the Bahamas from here
(Georgetown, SC), starting in late November/early December
(or: first available weather window getting me across the Stream w/out NE'erlies).
I've found that my business drops to basically *nothing* for December/January
(for 2 years running now... 
), so that is prime time to be gone, and I'll have a time window of a relatively guilt-free
4-6 weeks, long enough to actually dig my toes in the sand down there.
Maybe I'll get to see Franks house, and/or visit with Connie, without having to hurry so much to get back right away, which I would have had to do if I went this spring.
Katie will be back in sailing condition late next month, so that'll give me summer and fall for sea trials, shakedown, practice, and tweaking, as well as to finish fitting out her interior at least well enough to be passageworthy.
If folks do meet up late next month in Beaufort NC to Scoot, I will probably throw my dinghy on the car and go up there to meet with y'all, prior.
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