Poised to Make the Crossing

Tomorrow morning we will pull anchor about 8:00 am - that will be at half tide to give us enough water to get through the shallow channel out of the Green Turtle harbour - and then we'll start out on a 30 hour sail/motor trip all the way to Lake Worth. That's the plan anyway. As Sally from It's About Time says, sailors' plans are made of jello - always subject to change. We'll travel with Plumpuppet (Barb and Ken) as well as Kathy and Jim on Flawless D. We made contact with Flawless D this morning on the VHF. Bob heard Kathy asking about weather for traveling toward Great Sale tomorrow (on our route) and he put out a call to any boat wanting to join us as we make our way toward Lake Worth. Flawless D responded that they would like to join us.

A side note - on a trip like this - you become your boat - so that people sometimes refer to us as "Sea Change" as in "Hello Sea Change" or "We saw Sea Change" (instead of we saw Bob and Carole from Sea Change") and we refer to others alternately by their first name or boat name. You may notice that practice in my blogging - as in "Flawless D responded that they would like to join us".

So here we are doing a long distance haul and becoming part of the adventurous and hardy sailors' group we claimed not to be a part of. But maybe I shouldn't speak too soon - we haven't completed the journey yet. If we don't sail straight through so as to make the crossing on Tuesday - we'll have to delay for the next weather window - possibly Thursday but also quite possibly days after that. The longer term forecast often changes.

We're in getting ready mode now. Bob is rustling about in the lockers - pulling things out - there are piles of stuff on the cabin floor. He tells me that he's looking for a replacement part - he's thinking of changing the impeller.