5 Years Later, It's Gone

Five years ago we got married on this beach. The ceremony on the bow of Sophisticated Lady, the party at Janet's Place, a bar on the sand where our whole story on the island began. This year we sailed back. In May I found the beach buried in sargassum and the bar shut. In September, on Maddy's birthday, we rode across the island and walked down to Janet's. It's gone. Knocked down, nothing left but a patch of sand. So this is a then-and-now. The wedding day from our 2021 films. The island as it is today. Acuario Cay the way it looked in 2019 when the Rally fleet rafted up on the sandbar, and the old shipwreck the girls used to jump off in 2021, now caved into the sea. Our old intro, with Jota's painting on the end of the building. And the family that came out of all of it, still very much here. Thank you, Janet. Thank you, San Andrés. ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 Sunday morning on the boat 1:29 Janet's Place is gone 2:48 Five years ago: our wedding 5:48 Why San Andrés 6:22 Back on the island 8:22 Maddy's birthday 8:48 The swim 12:01 Janet's Place, then and now 13:38 A few weeks later: the wreck 14:16 2021: jumping off the wreck 15:46 2019: Acuario Cay with the Rally 18:01 Our old intro 18:49 Still here 20:57 The photos 21:15 The party and the toast 22:50 See you next time THE OLD FILMS The wedding, part 1 — SSL523: https://youtu.be/5CqEQLy4mGY The wedding, part 2 — SSL525: https://youtu.be/IZ7x6WwyUmU The morning after — SSL526: https://youtu.be/eSKJb4H2ILs The wreck and the roach — SSL533: https://youtu.be/qETLpclfZEw Music licensed through Artlist: Unlocking Memories (CK Martin), Better Together (Fassounds), Forever (Ethan Rank), Island of Daisies (Alon Ohana), Dream (Ian Post), Memories of the Past (Rafi B Levy), Found You (Asher Postman), A Good Mood (Young Rich Pixies). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GO DEEPER — TEAM SSL CREW ON PATREON The systems library. Build breakdowns and wiring diagrams. What everything actually cost. The mistakes I'd rather you didn't repeat — twenty-one years' worth. Plus the Come Aboard Draw. https://www.patreon.com/SailingSophisticatedLady ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sailingsophisticatedlady #SanAndres #BeachWedding #ThenAndNow #Sailing #Liveaboard Sailing Sophisticated Lady · Captain Rick Moore · 21 years / 120,000+ miles living aboard