Years of dreaming and hard work went into preparing the prior boat, s/v Turbulence, a Wauquiez Pretorien 35 for our offshore cruise. With very mixed emotions we decided it was a bit too small and upgraded a few feet to Spindrift. So we were pleasantly surprised to see the old boat, with the new name Altere, now off on a High Seas adventure. After making the 'big left turn' out of Straits of Juan de Fuca they are now in San Fransisco bay area. You can read more about their adventures:
http://www.sailblogs.com/member/altere/
The old boat made it out of Seattle before we did..... hmmmm.