We moved to a slip in Jolly Harbor for final preparations before leaving for Bermuda. Winds were light and it was very hot, not ideal for the hard work we had to do. My cousin Tom arrived as a crew member for the delivery — he’s previously done long passages on the Pacific and Indian Oceans, so this will be his third ocean. We’ve figured out that we really haven’t spent much time together since he was 4, so it will be fun to get to have this time together!

By far the hardest job so far was to take the outboard off the dinghy and stow it in one of our deep aft lockers – a great photo for this blog would have been me at the bottom of the locker trying to push the heavy outboard into the right spot to fit, however the guys decided instead to hold on to the thing so it wouldn’t crush me. Much appreciated! At this point, most things are stowed, most of the provisioning is done, and there is only a short list of last minute jobs to be done in the morning before we leave. One complication is that everyone’s StarLink service changed today, so we just have to hope that it will work OK out at sea. All being well I will try to do a daily blog post, or you can follow us at
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