10/21/2006, Pt. Richmond, CA
wish there was a really good reason for not posting an update in such a long time, but there really isn't a great one. We spent the month of July getting rid of everything in the Apartment in San Jose that was not coming with us and moving out.
We have spent August and September thru today working on the boat, and while very interesting to us, make very boring reading I'm afraid. To give you a highlight, we have replaced the stove and have it running. We have removed the old refrigeration and installed the new Tropicool and it is operational! We removed the old head and replaced it with a new Skipper II. We removed the second holding tank under the Vbirth to make room for the water maker which is almost finished.
Course these were mostly Rick jobs, while I continued to work on the canvas projects, as you can see from the picture above I replaced the old dodger along with the sail covers, cockpit awning, lee cloths, wheel/instrument cover and am currently working on a cover (chaps) for our dingy.
All in all we are doing good, if not as fast as we would have liked all the projects to go. As for when we think we will be ready to leave? Hoping to have an answer to that in the next couple of weeks, but think it will be toward the end of November maybe early December if we run into any more unexpected delays.
We had a very brief visit from John and Michelle the end of July, it wasn't near long enough and now as of 3 weeks ago they are in Kuwait waiting to begin their year tour in Iraq. Last time John was in Iraq I only had to worry about him, now I will be worrying about both my son and daughter-in-law. Another reason not to miss TV.
Looks like we will be moving onto the boat by the end of next week. Next BIG step toward leaving. It will help us to find out what is working and what is not ??" keeping our fingers crossed that we do not have to add too many new projects to fix!
Well that's it for now. Hope to update again soon with more real news.
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10/21/2006, Pt. Richmond, CA
wish there was a really good reason for not posting an update in such a long time, but there really isn't a great one. We spent the month of July getting rid of everything in the Apartment in San Jose that was not coming with us and moving out.
We have spent August and September thru today working on the boat, and while very interesting to us, make very boring reading I'm afraid. To give you a highlight, we have replaced the stove and have it running. We have removed the old refrigeration and installed the new Tropicool and it is operational! We removed the old head and replaced it with a new Skipper II. We removed the second holding tank under the Vbirth to make room for the water maker which is almost finished.
Course these were mostly Rick jobs, while I continued to work on the canvas projects, as you can see from the picture above I replaced the old dodger along with the sail covers, cockpit awning, lee cloths, wheel/instrument cover and am currently working on a cover (chaps) for our dingy.
All in all we are doing good, if not as fast as we would have liked all the projects to go. As for when we think we will be ready to leave? Hoping to have an answer to that in the next couple of weeks, but think it will be toward the end of November maybe early December if we run into any more unexpected delays.
We had a very brief visit from John and Michelle the end of July, it wasn't near long enough and now as of 3 weeks ago they are in Kuwait waiting to begin their year tour in Iraq. Last time John was in Iraq I only had to worry about him, now I will be worrying about both my son and daughter-in-law. Another reason not to miss TV.
Looks like we will be moving onto the boat by the end of next week. Next BIG step toward leaving. It will help us to find out what is working and what is not ??" keeping our fingers crossed that we do not have to add too many new projects to fix!
Well that's it for now. Hope to update again soon with more real news.
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06/11/2006, Pt. Richmond, CA
Me working on the main sail up in Elizabeth's shop!
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