Almost Ready

It's Monday morning and we've come to the place where each part of our remaining three days is planned. Bob has gone down to the boat to meet Sean. The work on our WiFi signal booster/aerial continues. Will it work? - still not sure.

On Saturday, we packed boxes of food (mostly taken from our kitchen cupboards) and bags of clothes into the car, brought the boat into the dock by the club parking lot and transferred everything to the boat. I filled once partially empty lockers with food and clothes - we even found an empty space for my collection of books. Bob stored many of our newly purchased charts and cruising guides by laying them flat under the cabin seat cushions.

Yesterday, on the way to the boat, we stopped by the "propeller guy's" condo to pick up a special screw. Late tomorrow afternoon or early Wednesday morning, Bob is having the boat pulled out so that he can replace one of the prop screws. (He discovered the faulty screw when the boat was out of the water last week.)

We spent Sunday with Krista, Sean and Michelle, had lunch on the boat, did some biking (using the "folding" bikes we'll take with us), read some magazines and had dinner "on the deck" at the club. Incidentally - after Krista and I returned from our bike ride, Bob discovered that one of the bike tires needs the inner tube replaced so we'll add that to the list of final tasks for the next couple of days.

Sean will drive us to the boat Wednesday afternoon. Bob has his last Cruising Squadron meeting Wednesday night - and then - we're off on Thursday morning for a ten month "sail" on Sea Change. Many have questioned how we'll manage so much time together in sometimes stressful situations. Well - we'll see about that but we're pretty sure that we're equal to the task :) - and can even have a good time in the process.

Did I say that "we're off on Thursday morning?" - well yes - but since we're sailors - that would be we're off - weather permitting.