Sarah packed everything in plastic bags and threw out all the cardboard, packed the freezer, refrigerator and every nook and cranny on the boat that she could find. We stocked up on fleece clothes and tried to decide if it was going to be colder or milder than we planned. Today, 14 November, was in the mid 60s, so we don't know what we'll face on the way South.
Tomorrow, 15 November is expected to bring a weather change and gusty winds to 40 knots, so we've decided to stay at the dock another day and leave for Herrington Harbor North on Friday where we have some carpentry work to be finished...the last item on our pre-departure punchlist.
Windreka is in better shape than she has ever been since she was new in 1984. During the past six months, we've offloaded all the "things" suitable for daysailing on Chesapeake Bay and added miscellaneous "things" to the boat to make cruising life more liveable, scraped, sanded and revarnished most of her teak, added 200' of new anchor chain, overhauled ou
r generator, replaced our refrigerator and windlass, recertified and refilled our two 20# aluminum propane tanks, installed a big new 155 amp alternator and regulator, installed XM satellite radio, set up a broadband access account for our laptops, installed a new Garmin chartplotter, and updated all our navigation software, in addition to finishing a hundred and one other things we've intended to get around to over the past several years. The rest of the things on our list will get done underway, or when we have more "dock time" to fill.
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