Arrived at Boat

Met up with Captain Grant and one of the crew yesterday here in Miami. Demetri, the other crew is a nice French dude. He has no experience sailing but hopes to make it back to France(home) after almost a year of traveling. Grant the Australian, seems like really good guy. He is determined to have us shipped off in about a week or less. Two other guys will be meeting up with us on Tuesday to join the crew, so altogethor there will be five of us.
There is plenty of little jobs that need to be done before we leave. A lot of it seems to be filing down bits of mettle to make parts fit better. Rather borring but whatever its got to be done!
Last night we kicked back and drank a couple beers on the boat as we got to know one another. I am pretty excited about everything. I think its going to be agood trip.

Pictures of the boat will be coming soon.

sailing soon

In about a week I leave for sailing. The boat I'll be on is a 36ft catalina. The crew includes the captain Grant Sooby, two or three other guys, and myself. We ship off from Miami to the UK via the Bahamas, Bermuda, and the Azores. I have not met any of the crew yet, only spoke with the captain by phone and email. Anyway I am pretty excited. I think this adventure will be a good chance to get away, to grow in my faith,  to learn about myself, and to be absolutely ridiculous. I have sailed a lot with much smaller racing boats growing up, but I've never done any real "blue water" sailing before and its soon about to be hurricane season... I think I'll bring a couple good books.

so it begins...

I am thinking good thoughts and enjoying them