Preparing for the Adventure

September 24, 2012....Well, I thought the outfitting would be finished in Kemah....boy was I wrong.  I think this boat thing is an ongoing "outfitting".  We did make the move to Freeport.  It was a 19 hour sail from Galveston, going against a current and a headwind.  In retrospect we should have motored, but live and learn.  Our good friends - Eileen and Les Pettigrew and John Trevathan made the trip with us.  Thinking that it would only take 9 hours tops, we sailed into the night and into the next morning.  Some problems with the navigation screen and the lack of wind direction indicator, but that was all of the problems with the boat.  She sailed beautifully.  Nighttime sailing hopefully will be less stressful with more experience, but the dark did make me a little nervous.  The stars were beautiful and the albatross that followed the slip stream of our main sail was an awesome sight for a good 20 minutes.  The mast light lite up the underbelly of the bird and it was just a little surreal.  Made for a good memory.

We are now moored at the Freeport Municipal Marina.  It is a secured marina behind a guillotine gate, which, in case of a hurricane would provide some protection from the storm surge.  We, again, are meeting some nice people, but the town lacks the expertise of workmanship that is needed to fix up a boat.  As we do more research into cruising, we are finding more and more things that we need to do.  And, the leaving date of March is looming, in the very near distance. But, we will not hurry the necessities that must come.  So, we continue to buy....you know what B O A T means? Break out another thousand.  So hurry out and get you a boat too, and live for an adventure!