In only slightly more than a month we will be leaving on Dubhe for the Florida Keys. We have always dreamed of cruising again and this is our chance. We plan to depart with the first weather window after Christmas and return by the end of April 2015. I hope to make this Blog a detailed record of our cruise so this post is practice.
Thanksgiving is only four days away and at this point, I don't see how we can get everything ready, especially Dubhe, and get packed. Our original intention was to do this last year but it did not work out. I am bound and determined to make this happen on time or it may never happen. Dubhe is "on the hill" at Marine Propulsion in Rockville, SC, I discovered a hydraulic leak in the main steering helm pump, and the weather may delay getting her back to Beaufort. It seems as if all is conspiring against us, but I am not really discouraged. We are going to do it.
