Getting Ready

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006, 9:00 am. 

Goodmorning everyone!  Jon, Wade and I are working daily to finish the last necessities for us to cast off and begin our adventure.  Wade arrived mid July and we have been working daily with the help of friends and family along the way.  There always seems to be so much to do!  When I look back on all that we have accomplished in six weeks I am impressed with our completions.  We are all tired and can't wait to go.  We had a break in this weeks fog yesterday and I was able to get the rest of the deck painted. Jon has been working on setting up our battery bank and the electronics.  Wade has been trying to focus on the bathroom but Jon and I have been pulling him in different directions to help us complete our chosen jobs.  Our friend Tanya has been wonderful and we have been able to relax each evening with a meal at her house.  I am cherishing these moments as soom we will become email pals and I will miss her dearly.  The following entries are to give a snapshot of who we are, where we have come to arrive at this idea of sailing off and to share in some of our monumental moments so far.  I appologize for the blog address change.  The other I had started would only allow me to type on-line, which obviously was not going to work with no email ability on the boat.  I hope to keep you all informed as often as possible and you will never be far from our thoughts.  This new blog supposedly allows me to download video as well, so I hope to send you some video clips fo us at sea etc.. I have just done a crash, one hour course on llearning this new blog, so I do hope that this blog will work for communication.  Until my next entry, please take care and we all look forward to your emails and comments.  Please pass on the new blog address to others for us. Thanks.

Cathy, Jon and Wade :)