Dockside Fury

We skipped over a few steps in our story; we were too busy to start our blog until just now, so now we'll give some background.  Don't feel it necessary to read this background information, but it may be of interest to many of you dirt dwellers, and sailors, too.

When we finally left our jobs, we worked FURIOUSLY for 3 weeks.  We put piles of stores on the boat....and probably needed to paint the water line higher than John recommended (picture above)!  SeaSpan already underwent a significant refit over the last year, but one is never quite done with boat projects, we know all too well.  We had a lot of help from Lyman Bocock, John and Roberta Nunemaker, Tom Conway, Lynn Miller, Pete Petersen, Bob Bennett, John Tokarz, and many others.  THANKS to you ALL!

Just before we left we had a galvanic corrosion specialist check our boat, had the fuel polishers come and make sure our diesel tank was clean (Robert, in the picture, said the fuel was pristine), rechecked all the rigging, installed a few more systems, put the new traveler and sails on the boat, and cut our ties to the power grid to make sure the wind generator and the solar panels were doing their jobs.
Then Elise and I learned to use our dinghy, remembered how to sail our boat, figured out where to put our stuff, and we were suddenly GONE!