Tag: getting ready

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Remember the poem about the Owl and the Pussycat who went to sea “in a beautiful pea green boat?”  Our boat is white, but we plan to “sail away for a year and a day,” just as they did.  At this point we’re still hoping to set sail in January, so we’re busy getting the boat ready, closing out our shoreside lives, and packing to go. You should find a button at the bottom of the sidebar at right that allows you to enter your email to subscribe–this means, I think, that you’ll be notified when we do start posting.

For now, a few of the drifts of gear filling our house:

The yellow bag contains a sea anchor for stormy situations, the orange bag is filled with flares to be used to signal for help, and the Nutella at the far left of this picture should cover most other situations.
A few items for our first aid kit.
Where will we keep all the books?

 

 

 

 

More soon!

 

Getting Ready

As I write, Jason is out in our shop shaping fir which will become our cabin-top water catchment system.  I’m looking at piles of gear lining our front hall–sea boots, piles of books, water jugs, line waiting for me to splice to make headsail tack pennants.  My computer has way too many tabs open.  At some level we’ve been working toward this adventure for 20 years, but now we’re really getting ready.  We’re hoping to leave from Alameda mid January 2018.