11/3/2022

It has been a real struggle to get things going. But I have finally moved out of my apartment and on to the boat. Moving was very difficult - I can't believe I had crammed so much stuff into my postage stamp sized apartment. Moving and prepping the boat, doing much needed repairs, or at least attempting to.

So what's next? I have to load the boat with all of the stuff I moved from the apartment to temporary storage. (Just to get it all out of the apartment while the boat was being painted.) Then I have to figure out where to put everything...

And I have to determine which of the endless list of boat projects I can get done before I leave.

11/6/2022

Still loading the boat, basically the plan was to throw everything on board and sort it out on the way down, but that is not quite as easy as it seems, when I am also trying to fix a few things that require access to places currently covered in stuff.

And now there is a freaking hurricane actually predicted to go up the east coast of the US...

11/7/2022

The not-quite-a-tropical-storm Nicole is messing things up quite nicely. The track it is taking is right over my (and everyone else's) planned route to the Bahamas.

11/12/2022

Time to go. I have done all that is going to get done before I leave. Going to wait out some rain and head out. We'll see.

All this nice weather and I have been scrambling to get moved and finish boat projects. Now it's going to be a very cold ride down the bay.

11/15/2022

It's now pouring rain - the rain mentioned above - but it's cold, dark and wet and that always makes me want to crawl into my bunk and not come out until it stops. It is very dispiriting. I am just counting the minutes until I can cast off and head south. Even though the first few weeks will be unpleasantly cold, At least I am leaving all the other stress behind me for a while at least.