I love the hustle & bustle and scurry that comes with preparations for an offshore passage. Tomorow morning, if all goes well, we will be leaving New Bern, NC and heading towards Beaufort, NC, making a turn to starboard (right-hand turn for the landlubbers) and going straight to Mayport/Jacksonville, Fla.
There is something about stowing everything, deflating and packing up the dinghy, laying in comfort foods for provisions, pre-cooking meals, and so on that is such wonderful nerve-crunching fun.
We've pre-made spaghetti, popcorn, sliced veggies, sliced cheese, made ginger-ale, and bought some good breads, chips, crackers...we've hard-boiled a weeks worth of hen's work in eggs...
Fluids are checked and topped off, fuel is full, sails are ready...and so are we.
Tomorrow at this time we will be out in the Wild Blue Yonder skimming along, singing a song, and making way on the 400 or so miles back to Florida... back to palm trees, warm winter sun, and onward to new adventures. |
