Maui Hana

When the girls finally visited the boat, they scurried around finding things we didn't know were there. Maya "found" the light in the bunkroom, which we only just repaired 2 months later, haha.   They LOVED the blankets in the bunkroom. Naomi wanted to drive the boat. \ Eventually we would invite them to spend the night on Maui Hana, but for now, they just got familiar with this interesting place that Gigi and Grammadaddy spend their weekends.

 Our boat was positioned next to the land.  We lived with that a couple months, but it was a tight turn-around to get out, and Lord knows I was too green to help Dan maneuver the boat out so early in our ownership.  As illustration, one day we watched as our neighbor attempted to get out of his slip adjacent.  It was a windy day, as all recent days had been, and he got antsy to get out on the water regardless.  That boat's anchor slammed the boat next door - watching was painful. So, when a slip opened up on the opposite side, facing the bay, we made the decision to pay more to keep from bouncing off other boats like our neighbor did.  Best decision we've made so far. (Well, besides our decision for which marina to park our boat in - subject for another blog...) We pulled the boat nose-in on the opposite side and have our fly bridge facing Monroe Bay.   Yes, it's pricier. But we don't have boat  repairs to make due to rookie mistakes with our...

 Our boat was named after Dan’s and my favorite place in the whole world. That place is the village of Hana, on the island of Maui. It is a beautiful little village deep in the woods on one side of the island that you can only get to by a road that winds back-and-forth and sometimes turns into a one-way road. People drive slowly down this beautiful road through lush greenery creeping in from sides and above. When we were last there the road stopped at one point so you would go so far to get to Hana and then you could not keep going to circle the island because the road just stopped. You could see where you wanted to go, but you couldn’t get there. So many people will never see the road; it’s just too far and too much trouble. But not to us.  It is the place we still dream of together. So when it came time to name our boat, Dan combined the village name, Hana, and the island name, Maui, our favorite place, and suggested Maui Hana. I was tasked to create our boat decal and logo....