didn't happen....

so yea the trip got delayed again... .......i am leaving and jumping ship elsewhere

setting sail??? Were off!!!

Okay so it has been a long two weeks gettin the Sly Dog ready for sail, but alas it is done. A South African friend on the anchorage, Yaku, and I celebrated by finding several lobster and spearing a few snapper for dinner. There was no argument that this was one of our better meals out here.

I am so stoked to get out of Miami!! I very much dislike this town especially since having to walk miles everywhere to do anything. A bike would have perhaps made things a bit nicer... I think it could just be the traffic, I feel like hitting pedestrians here is a sport or somethin. Anyway I'm very much looking forward to setting sail.

Sunday night we plan to leave for the Bahamas in order to arrive durring the day to avoid any inconvenience with the reefs. The crew and myself are all out doing their personel stuff before we hand ourselves over to the sea. From the Bahamas we'll be headed to Bermuda, over to the Azores, and then up to England. I think its a good plan.....

If you are following....please please pray for us

Could be outta here soon, fingers crossed

Been gettin plenty of work done lately. Roller furler is all in place. The boat is all cleaned up and its lookin like we might actually be going sailing. (wierd.. I know). Today we got to hoist Grant up the mast which was pretty exciting and funny to watch him climb like a monkey/lizard to the top then yelling about wanting to come down or somethin.

The whole crew has been here for a few days now and we all seem to be gettin along great. The two new guys, Alex and Tofer just showed up graduating from Villanova with their enginerring degrees. So there is the captain, Grant, two engineers, are professional but not designated cook, Demitri, and myself of course. I feel pretty good about our group.
I went and snorkaled about some wrecks by the islands today as well hopin to spear some lunch, but I didn't see much other than a few small jacks and barricuda. Despite this, it pretty sweet to swim around for a few hours .

O yea we also got a guitar to go with our harmonica now. Its spectacular to here music again. Well all is good and hopefully we can set sail soon, I am very much looking forward to leaving the land of the "mossies", Miami.

still doing some boat preparation...

Theres a pic of the Sly Dog herself and another of Demetri stacking cards in the boat, kinda phenominal really. The boat was rocking the whole time. Anyway, we got the chain plates all back togethor now, were making slow but good progress. Hopefully we'll be outta here soon, last night we got attacked by the "mozzies" (mosquitos) and we were foced to sleep on the deck to avoid them. I actually really enjoyed this, I think I might continue to sleep on the deck, its much cooler and nicer as long as it doesn't rain.