NEWS FLASH! DEPARTURE DATE SET!

S/V It's Perfect is leaving the Watergate Marina on Saturday April 14, 2012.  Our long time dream of sailing away is just days away!  Both the car & the truck sold last week & we are officially pedestrians with bicycles.  Wow!  That really is a shock to the system!  No changing our minds now.

Boat projects have been non stop since we moved aboard & we will still have many to finish after we leave.  Most of  the most important things are being finished this week.
 
The wind generator has been installed & we have purchased our gas powered generator.  The bowsprit is being refinished & the pulpit is being moved  to allow backing plates to be installed.  Our dingy has been scrubbed & conditioned & is now back on the dingy davits.  Rod is installing the motor mount for the dingy motor.  All the spare gas, diesel & water containers have been filled & are now on deck.  The project list gets shorter every day.

We have purchased most of our inventory of spare parts but still have a few things to get.  I have spent the last month provisioning & making an inventory of all the food, paper goods and personal items aboard. After all this I think we need a VACATION!

Thursday we plan to stop working on projects & begin the process of making the boat ready to leave.
There will be last minute things to put away & make secure.  Around noon on Saturday with both our son's watching, It's Perfect will leave this dock for the last time.  We will activate the SPOT & mark our progress while underway about every 4 hours.

We will make our first anchorage near Galveston.  After we check the weather, the boat systems & have dinner we will spend our first night of this long awaited adventure on the hook.  From there we will make our way along the gulf coast to Florida & beyond.

The blog will be updated frequently & we hope you will all enjoy watching us as we travel.