My final week in the Abacos and the weather has at last turned truly tropical, highs in the 80s, hot sun, lighter winds. Brooks and Rita Wright arrive next week to help sail Catharsis to Florida. This has been a week of farewells and cataloging memories. Yesterday five boats sailed to Tahiti Beach, one of the prettiest beaches around, for the day. A perfectly laid-back spinnaker reach under 5 knots of wind, so casual another boat called to ask if I'd run aground. Then Lavalo, a homebuilt powerboat from Montreal, called on the radio to say he'd just caught a 40-pound dolphin on the ocean-side, so we all spent the night and had a beach barbecue. The dilli-tini, made from the juice of the last jar of pickled green beans Sandra had provisioned me with ("dilly beans"), a drink invented by my son Ben on the boat, has been voted the drink-of-the-season here. The best part about the dilli-tini is that the pickle juice is so powerful when your glass is half full ((nothing is "half emp ty" heere) you top it up with vodka and can start all over again. Tonight is the annual full moon party, topped off by Shuttle Discovery being launched over our heads at 9:26. I am so looking forward to getting home with family and friends, though, after this great adventure.