We had planned on leaving out this evening at high tide but we just didn’t have enough time to get the boat back together. We only got put back in the water this morning and the place was a train wreck. The dodger wasn’t quite finished, we were having timber put up over the stove, all the floors were a terrible shade of bilge goop. This morning I had to race out and drop 2 big garbage bags of laundry off at the laundromat, go grocery shopping for the trip, come back clean up. Laundry had to be picked up, rental car dropped off. Kids were screaming, I was screaming, Carl ran from us all screaming. Let’s just say it was a hard day. It’s now 9:30pm and we’ve given up. Most everything has been put away but still need to stow the boat in the morning. Joe a friend at the yard is going to take Carl to Walmart in the morning to get some peanut butter – how did I forget the peanut butter, we live off of the stuff.
So we’ll push off at high tide which will be around 10am. It will take a few hours to get down the river and out. We should be getting some light headwinds for the first day or so before it clocks around to 35knots on the butt. We dealt with conditions like this last summer so we feel confident in Salty. We are planning on sticking close to shore in case it gets a bit iffy. We’re guessing it will take 4 days to get to New York. Here we’ll spend maybe 2 days before heading up to Massachusetts. The dodger looks great – thanks Sally and Joe – and we can’t wait to put it to use.
I’ll try and update this log every day that we’re out via either our SSB or iridium GO.
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