Waiting to go

Started raining last night and continues intermittently today, predicted to stop by 1pm. Winds are predicted to be strong from the South till after midnight and since we are heading south we won’t leave till Monday morning at first light (around 7am). Adam Jacobs, our third crew, will arrive around  1pm and we’ll discuss such items as food, slewing arrangements, watch schedule and such) we won’t do any fancy cooking off shore...probably nothing more aggressive than soup from a can or maybe some pasta, but more likely peanut butter on bread (if which we have lots). We have lots of fruit that should help as well

Last night we went to dinner at Floyds 1921 with Judith Jacobson and her husband Haakon and another couple we met in the marina. They are a retired couple who spends half the year in Hamburg Germany where they used to work (he as an engineer and she as a physician) and half the year on a 40 foot aluminum boat. They bought the boat in Los Angeles, sailed it through the Panama Canal, then through the Caribbean and on up to Annapolis. They are now going down to Florida where they’ll put the boat away to go back to Germany. Judith and Haakon will go down to Brunswick Georgia and go back to Denmark for the holidays, then come back after New Years and continue sailing south intending to go down to panama, through the canal, then to the Galapagos and down the west coast of South America, around the Capenand then up to Patagonia. They are debating sailing to Antartica (they are Shackelton fans) before heading north again. 

Drew is back in the port lazerrete tidying up the heater installation. The nice thing about the cockpit enclosure is that you can stay out in the cockpit even in the rain. It should also make a big difference off shore keeping the cockpit warm and dry, unlike conditions on my boat where it was impressively cold and wet on the previous trips down to Florida in the fall. 

I packed enough clothes (shirts, socks, underwear) to last the entire trip but decided to do laundry and so now have enough clean cloths for another two weeks! 

As our plans are to arrive in Fort Pierce in about 4 days I shoul be ok

Adam Jacobs, our third crew arrived at 2 pm and we helped (actually mostly watched) Drew finish the repairs in the lazerrete. We then changed the oil in the engine and declared the boat ready to go

We went back to Floyd’s for dinner and then back to the boat for an early start in the morning

I didn’t take any pictures today since the boat didn’t move and Morehead city is far from picturesque