loomings

so we missed our first week of november departure date.. seems this should fall into fashion nicely with the rest of our trip as this was the only date we had set and we already missed it! so much for itineraries. HAH. who needs to live by a schedual anyway when your breaking away from a lifestyle of scheduals and deadlines. anyway.. we will be riding down the piscataqua river tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock with the outgoing tide to begin this saga of ours.

our marathon of last minute work seems to all be all but tied up. a few projects will continue as we are underway but the important things all seem to be working nicely. we finally made it out for a quick test sail tonight with clint, brian and jim for a nice quick cruise up the bay and back. that leaves us winterizing the well house tonight and packing the last pieces of the puzzle to be ready for tomorrow. thanks clint for the burritos. :)

our first intended stop is in newburyport, ma. a whole 22 miles from where we are tied up right now, but it is an important stop. this is the home town of arthur berube who will be seeing his old vessel floating for the first time in 3 years and with a lot of new work done to her. following this stop we plan to head down through the annisquam river in ipswich, ma to gloucester harbour, and from there down to cape cod. instead of going around the outside we are opting for the shortcut of the cape cod canal which will dump us in buzzards bay and heading for block island. i dont know when the next chance will be for me to put up a post but hopefully a few good pictures can come out of that stretch.

so thank you to everyone who has helped us make this vision become a reality, and helped us fit out with all the gear we needed to make this trip as safe as possible. we owe that safety to a lot of our friends and family who seem to want to see us safely home again after the voyage.

about to start cutting out a new mizzen mast on our new bandsaw coming strait from brattelboro, VT. Thanks Doug! the wood we are cutting from is a 30' long piece of douglas fir at 6"X8" we brought her down to 4"X4" and tapered to 3" at the top. Annalisa's father Chuck had this piece on the farm that he got from the power company when they were making some repairs to the power lines running through the property. this particular beam was one of the crossties you see at the top of the tall wooden poles.

annalisa says..time for a nap.

a blur of packing :)