– Claire Insley Holmes
So we closed the restaurant doors the first week of May. Since then David (the owner), Camillo (the craftsman), and myself have been tearing apart the dining room. Renovating the front pass, installing electrical outlets, building booths, hanging light fixtures, installing custom track lighting, installing flatscreen “framed photos”, covering the wall in greenery, installing scent […]
Don’t forget all words in blue are links. Click them for additional information on a subject, further explanation, or a glimpse back into our ship’s log. June, 2014 My mother came to visit Claire and myself here in Texas. She can get quite adventurous when it comes to her yearly visit. Her last visit to […]
April 21, 2014 Well we’ve been quite busy here in Texas. Definitely a big adjustment. I’ve got a few posts backed up that i am about to load all in a row. i thought i would start out with a basic one, what this website was created for in the first place. An online ship’s […]
April 5th was our first outing onto Galveston Bay. Now that we no longer have our Yamaha 8hp mounted off the transom, we plan to use our Mercury 5hp in the motor-well for the time being. Our outboards have needed some serious cleaning after all that usage in Mexico and then sitting for 11 […]
we have been busy trying to adapt back into society. the Houston area is massive. we have been warned of culture shock after spending a long time in secluded areas. claire has been gardening at the clipper house inn bed and breakfast behind the restaurant i am working in. also, she has scored a […]
Monday May 12, 2014You don’t usually meet people who give their houses names but when your home is a sailboat it is quite different. I have been living aboard Splendid Isolation for three years. Michael and I bought her from Taylor when I was 19. I am now 22 years old. When people ask why […]
My sister Monica is seventeen years old. Absolutely gorgeous and probably smarter than you. She reads while observing and soaking up all the knowledge that passes by. Monica constantly reminds me that unlike everyone else’s sister she only gets to see me every 6 months or so. Being an older sister is a very demanding […]
Here’s a glimpse of my first week in our new town. Claire and her sister Monica spent the week having a great time, check back for a more exciting update from Claire on that one. Claire made fresh salsa and a cheese board while I emptied the quarter berths. “a single bunk tucked under […]
April 7th we started painting the hull of Splendid Isolation. We had been discussing colors for a long while now and decided that we want to go lighter than the original blue she was. At $30 a day on the hard, we needed to work fast. With our extremely tight budget and time frame, […]
Thank you everyone for all the help and support. We have completed our transportation of Splendid Isolation. From the Sea of Cortez, across the desert, to the Gulf of Mexico on the Texas coast. After sailing over 2,500 miles down the Pacific from California, around Baja, up and across the Sea of Cortez. […]
