Saturday, November 23, 2013

 A great start to a new day! Nothing like mornin' joe in a lap-lap.

 

 Guess what I've been doing today :0)

 

 Covers for the diesel/gas cans!

 

 Even the small ones that sit on the end of the larger ones!

 

 Me too!   Me too!

 

 Now guess what Bob has been doing today!

(he has too much crap)

 

 Floors are pulled up!

 

 All this for a couple of little wires!!!

 

 Our sunset

 

 Sunset over....back to work for Bob! (Nice lookin' legs huh!!)

 

He did it!  We now have a "emergency bilge pump w/siren" on the

starboard side of the boat too!

 

 Kind of a work day although we really didn't want to work as it was so beautiful.  Sunny, 10 knots of blow, and pretty flat.  But I got 3 fuel cans covered with protective canvas and Bob got the emergency bilge pump for the starboard side in.  With a siren for when it goes off.  Storymaker doesn't leak water in so if the siren goes off we're taking on water in a really bad way!

 

Bob and Gary looked at the weather and it looks like we could be sitting in the Palm Beach area well after Bird Day. We have to wait for 2-3 days of either calm winds or winds out of the south up to 20 knots.  We can't leave with wind anywhere with a northerly component.  The Gulf Stream is moving north about 3 knots or so.  If the wind blows out of the north, it works against the Gulf Stream and creates large and confused seas (wind and current going the opposite direction).  It makes for a rough and can be dangerous if the wind really blows.  Andy and Pam from the other night waited weeks last year, got tired of waiting, and just went to the Keys.  There are now about 30 boats here in North Palm Beach waiting for this "weather window."  This is our 40th day since we left Maryland.  We'll wait as long as we can.  It's much easier to wait when the temperature is 80 degrees as it was today.

 

So, we may not be able to give too much warning about our departure.  If we don't post for 2 or 3 days you'll know we're on our way to the Bahamas.  We'll try to post, if we can, while we're there.  We will return to South Beach, Miami on/around February 1st.