12/05/2017 – Georgetown Yacht Basin, MD Docked – 0 nm
I flew in yesterday to join the flurry of last minute preparations, running Iridium cable, GenSet troubleshooting, and random small stuff.
Today we’re pretty much ready to go, but with gale force winds forecast and a thick Gulfstream to cross, we adjusted our departure to tomorrow morning. Looking like the inshore route for now and cross the Stream further south.
So to kill time, Chris and Gary worked on fixing the forward port berth sink pump while I drove 3 hours to grab a compression tester for the GenSet. Maybe we can get that thing going after all! But with two other reliable engines and alternators, the GenSet will by no means delay our departure. We’re pretty much nit-picking at this point! The boat is clean and in very good shape! She’s beautiful!
The girls are out provisioning at Costco grabbing meat, veggies, miscellaneous other and ten cases of beer. The Cuban Rum already on board should hold out for the six day trip.
Since Chris installed the new Iridium Go! satellite modem, we’ll have the ability to grab comprehensive weather updates, communicate with our shore based weather guru and confidently plan our way through the winter weather. And (bonus!) we’ll also have the ability to post updates here at SailorsLifeForMe.com!
Hopefully, if everything works correctly, the next post will be around noon tomorrow, sailing out of the Chesapeake Bay!