Three Weeks, More or Less
March 27, 2013
By this time next month we should be back aboard. Though it has been only four months, it seems like much longer. Thanks to a home project or two, we were bable to retain some measure of distraction from what would otherwise have been misery just sitting around thinking about getting back aboard. Each trip home revises our ideas about what is necessary and not for our cruise. Each trip back takes less and less stuff to the boat. In other words, the crew has learned a thing or two about provisioning thus the boat is making a transition from freighter back to sailing vessel.
The usual stuff occupies our last few weeks at home. We now have two smaller go boxes and will soon put them in the MSU and continue putting stuff in them. We will start to de-commission parts of the house and stow stuff scattered about for the remodel. IF there is a good side to the actual long drive back is that it takes us through some of the best and most attractive parts of the South. A drive in the spring in the Appalachian Mountains can’t be all that bad. There is always something in the back of the mind that keeps building anticipation of the first view of Why Knot. Will she be all rusty and covered with goose poop or will she be floating there with a grin? The closer one gets, the greater the anticipation. I am reminded of the moment I first saw her in a destroyed marina in New Orleans after Katrina. Expecting the worst, the surprise was awesome. She was floating there like a faithful pooch just waiting to go to sea. Hopefully, the same will be true this time. The countdown begins.