The New Year ushers in our planned departure date (May 2008) and a long list of things to do prior to departure. First things first though, our boat shipped from Sweden on January 7th to the east coast of the U.S., specifically Essex CT, where we will take delivery and commission her.
In response to a question we received: Our planned itinerary will be to test boat and systems and provision in April and begin sailing down east towards Maine in mid May returning in late summer down the ICW (at least parts where we can sneak our 6.5 foot draft) and then on to the Bahamas’. Whether we continue farther south through the Caribbean or come back to the U.S. for the hurricane season of 2009 depends on how we adjust and progress with our new life. Will provide more details on our itinerary as we get closer.
The focus now is in one word logistics, with the boat, other than commissioning and system testing very much ready to go, we turn our attention to; 1) getting misc gear to the boat, some stored in CT, some with us in Switzerland and some with friends and family 2) selling or giving away our possessions including car and furniture in Switzerland 3) moving onto and provisioning the boat. At this point it all feels manageable and we do a little each week to keep going forward. I am sure we begin to the feel the pinch in March or so as we are an ocean away from our boat but yet still trying to get "ready".
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