Countdown...

After getting packages of spare parts, Father's Day Gifts and other supplies, I think our dog, Tracey, likes the FedEx man better than us! He always brings her treats. But getting all this stuff means we are getting closer to departure. The radar pole and radar are here, literally here in the living room. And before you ask, no, this won't do us any good on board, but we do plan to install the radar this week. We will have to learn as we go, but we made the trip last year without a radar, so if we don't figure it out we'll be just fine. We will, however, hope that we don't encounter any fog.

Last year, our first morning at sea found us in dense fog, with "Securite" warnings from USN Warship Six-Zero regarding live fire exercises. They wanted us to stay clear 5 miles from their position. We could hear their fog horn, they could hear our VHF replies to their queries for "the unidentified vessel at (lat,long) traveling east to identify and state your intentions", but we never did see them. We did, however, state our intention, which was to try to stay out of their way. We are hoping the radar will at least allow us to see Warships, even if we don't see all the other sailboats on the water.