If all goes according to plan, we will move aboard Dubhe next Sunday, Dec 28. I expect that we will depart no earlier than Monday, Dec 29 but no later than Dec 31. It still does not seem like this will really happen. We are as excited as children at Christmas and it feels good, like being a kid again. We are tired of talking about it and planning, we just want to GO! Yesterday we loaded the bulk of our provisions, primarily food, and I was pleasantly surprised how well it all stowed. We still need to get fresh food, beer, and clothes on board. Fuel tanks are full (80 gallons) and all other maintenance is done. Dubhe is ready. We are planning to go to North Augusta to see family at Christmas so we have very little time remaining to prepare.
To many of our friends and family who are not familiar with boats or cruising, this may seem like an incredible undertaking. But to many we have met over the years, this is just a short inshore trip which may seem rather boring. Some have sailed across oceans and others have lived on their boats for years. As I mentioned before, we have cruised too but that was a long time ago. Maybe next year the Bahamas or maybe a bigger boat in our future. But this trip, in our cozy, seaworthy little boat, is just right at this point in our lives.
We are anxiously looking at the 10 day weather forecasts. It looks good now but is still too far out to be reliable. I just don't want temps below freezing or wind over 25 kts.
I expect that my next post will be sometime after our departure unless something totally unforeseen comes up. I am new at blogging and I don't like how individual posts show up, so I plan to blog our whole cruise as one post. By editing the original post, later posts will be added at the bottom so the whole trip record will start at the top and progress downward like reading a book. We will see how it works.
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