Home Sweet Home – St. Augustine, FL, USA, October 14, 2022

After a few days of relaxing in Jekyll, we made out way back to the boat and man, it’s good to be home.  Staying in a boatyard on the hard isn’t really fun but I am happy to be back.  The boat is a complete disaster, and our car could not be fuller!  We did provisioning run #1 at Sam’s club with Mom & Dad.

We worked through putting the boat back together on day one just to make it livable, spent Sunday morning putting our sails and new sail bag up (which looks terrific by the way!), and Ron is working through installing our new AIS (which transmits and receives signals of boats nearby and let’s others know where we are.

Ron also bought another new toy, Starlink. We hope to be able to get rid of Iridium Go and use this instead with better reception and less cost. He set it up and is testing is now. The speeds, even in Florida, seem to be screaming fast!

We have about a week worth of work to do which hopefully includes majority of our provisioning and then we splash.  We wanted to give it another week since there is a cold front coming through and with luck, we will get a weather window to head down the intercoastal after this.  In a perfect world, we would be in the Bahamas by Nov 1 but sailing never seems to have a schedule.  Time will tell on this one.