Two weeks to go!!

Yikes - only 2 weeks until we head to Jekyll!?!?! Needless to say we have been busy with our " to do" list but there only a few items left. We straightened out the paperwork on the dinghy, applied the registration numbers and we were off for a harbor cruise sans dogs. It was delightful! We have decided to hold off on a new windlass until next spring. Our current one works, just not exactly perfectly?? The docks are really starting to empty out now that Labor Day has come and gone. Crazy as this is a beautiful time here - temps mid to upper 70's and cool nights. I have to complain tho - it's always something, right? All summer the wind was negligible and now that we would like to, and are able, to get out and do some anchoring the wind is a problem almost every day!! We don't like to be out in much over 10mph which I know doesn't sound like much, but in that kind of wind Panacea starts to act like a sailboat ( due to the canvas enclosure, a lot of boat above the waterline and hardly any keel) and a crappy one at that!! She acts like a two year old and is difficult to control - so we just don't go there!! We bought some sunbrella shade material and are cutting out screens to sew up for 3 sides of the enclosure - it is amazing the difference it can make in hot weather and HOPEFULLY the seamstress in me be will not only be reawakened but excited about the project. So far, not so much but working on it!! Alan has the new anchor attached and the chain all painted up with marked depths and has started on winterizing the trailer. I am starting my provisioning list and ordering what food we need online (we do a fair amount of this nowadays), and our float plan i.e "planned" days at what marinas or anchorages, mileage and tides for any particular day. ALL subject to ........let me hear it......WEATHER!!!! Plus we want to cross Norfolk Harbor, with the huge navy facility, on a Sunday and pass thru Camp LeJeune on a Sunday - so that's a little trickier. Good brain exercise!! Our social activity is mostly comprised of HH or HH/dinner with Bruce and Rhonda who have the catamaran across from us and John. John is a Brit with a 40ft sailboat that he sailed across the pond about a year or so ago and he plans on leaving here in a few weeks and heading thru the Panama Canal and "somewhere" after that!! Great people and there is never an end to the conversation!! About once a week we will go out to eat. It is at least a 20mi ride as there is NOTHING good in Dville other than a pizza place and they have great salads. Tomorrow we are going to Colonial Williamsburg - we were there about 20 years ago and anxious to go again! It will be too windy to anchor out, so this is plan B. The weekend, however, looks promising. Fingers crossed!!

 

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