Thursday, April 28, 2016

Day 1.
Left Pourt Orchard at 1 pm, arrived at Langly at around 5. Easy cruise up till the Edmonds ferry, wind picked up and started taking spray over the bow from 20 mph winds out of the North. Getting No Debt alongside prior to docking was a bit of a challenge but managed without adding any new scratches to the freshly repaired hull.
Walked up to town with River for dinner at the Pizza place.  Got back before it started raining.
The past week has been busy with all the last minute details to finish, shopping and loading the boat with 4 months worth of supplies. You would think we were going to a third world country for God sakes. I made at least five trips to the boat with full truck loads of food, clothing, parts, extra oil, coolant and booze.  This morning before leaving I had the fire suppression system checked and recertified, stored what I thought was the final truck load of stuff before going home to pick up Chris.. Well she had a another truck load of stuff waiting to load up.  Have no idea where I stored most of the stuff so we will spend the next month searching for things we know we brought along.
Things we did in preparation for this trip:
hauled the boat in September, new bottom paint and repaired 8 years of dings and scratches on the hull.
Replaced all zincs, filters and fluids,
Cleaned the fuel tanks and polished the fuel
Replaced the refrigerator
Replaced the freezer
Cleaned the rugs
Replaced the Mattress on the bed
Replaced a starting Battery
Added another 12 volt freezer unit
Stripped and repainted No Debt
Replaced the motor on No Debt
Put a new fuel tank in No Debt
Got my Captains license (100 ton Master)

It's better not to know what that all cost.




1 comment:

Becky,Mike,;Chloe Fuller said...

What are u two doing eating out at pizza on the first night when you packed enough food for a year! U need to start eating now to make room for your first fish U catch on this trip😉 Haha, just teasing ya! Hope River is being good and havin fun, love ya