After almost a year and a half of working on the boat, we finally taking off for a somewhat extended cruise. For real cruising folks, 4 months is nothing but for us, it's awesome! This will give us a chance to enjoy the fruits of our labor and learn some of the systems we have on board but never had the time to learn. Getting away from the dock was a bit of an adventure with glitches galore. First, my phone chose to conk out on Saturday. It was one update too many for the 4 year old platform. Thanks to the super staff at our local T-Mobile, who were having their own technical issues, I have another phone. Due to the old one being unable or unwilling to reboot, I lost some things and had to spend a lot of time downloading all the apps we need like radar, weather, etc. And all the things I want like pictures, Instagram, etc. Anyway, I will have a project for a few days. Then as David was doing one more engine inspection yesterday, he found a cracked bracket holding our alternator in place. In case your not a mechanic, that could have caused a lot of bad things to happen and that sort of thing always happens at the worst possible time. Thanks to Jack's Marine, we had a new bracket made quickly and we finally left the dock about 2. There wasn't much wind so we gave the engine a good workout. We were not overly ambitious so we made Hogtown Bayou by sunset and that was enough. We enjoyed soup for supper and turned in early. Today's goal is Smack Bayou in St. Andrew's Bay where we'll wait out some rain. It looks pretty good for a gulf crossing on Friday to somewhere on the peninsula. I'll keep you posted as wifi is available.
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| Making sure the water tanks are full |
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| All ship shape and ready to go |
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| Departing the Fort Walton Yacht Club |
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| Rebuilt forward companionway. |
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| First sunset |
Thanks to Sue, we'll always find our way home.
This is our street address in our "other" life.
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