Journey feels naked in the cold morning with her sailcovers, bimini and dodger off in Ortega Landing Marina.

Hooray and oh-my-gosh!  Only 18 days until we set sail, weather windows permitting. Our target date continues to be Dec 1st, 2013.

Meanwhile, our lazarettes are stripped while Wayne completely rewires Journey, steadily checking off his project spreadsheet list daily.  Our boat looks naked with our sailcovers, bimini and dodger gone for repair (click here for earlier post to see why).  

The backseat of our car is jammed with the dinghy we’re hoping to sell in exchange for a bigger one (2012 hypalon dinghy, anyone?  perfect for a solo sailor on a smaller sailboat)….

Terrible photo, yeah… rushing from shower to work, towel in tow, still. West Marine Cruiser’s Forum announcements in the window.

Meanwhile, West Marine is helping reduce our B.O.A.T. (bring on another thousand) with generous enough employee discounts it feels great to work there 5 days a week.  Stretching myself a bit thin as I couldn’t resist pitching in on helping launch an innovative redesigned cast iron skillet (click here to learn about that and it just got covered in Wired — click here for that), the first cast iron skillet I’ll ever use (not counting Dad’s, used as a kid).

Anyhow, that’s why my posts are a bit thin of late.  Not for lack of material!!!!

Watch for more frequent posts when we set sail.

Meanwhile, where are you at on your cruising schedule?