Well ,well, well, look what we have!!

Dear friends and family,

This is our first blog ever. It's amazing what spin offs (blogging) arise when you are trying to make a major lifestyle change.Notice we underlined trying....

Getting away on a year or so sailing trip has its challenges. In this case it was in the form of a 37 ton drill rig that appeared on our side lawn for five days two weeks before departure. It spewed, as it drilled down 300 feet, a grey muck that threatened to smother anything green in its wake. We now  have great water but very sore bodies as we cleaned up this environmental disaster. On the bright side, we now have abs of steel from all the raking and shoveling which should prove useful when we man the winches on "Windspell", our new home afloat.

The car is packed,our house is decommissioned and in 12 hours from Wednesday morning April 24th, 2012, we should be pulling up beside Windspell in all her shrink-wrapped glory as she sits ashore chomping at her anchors to get into the ocean.

Stay tuned for more!!

Walter ( Skipper) and Donna (Admiral)

SV Windspell last November 2011, prior to sea trials in Rock Hall, Maryland in the Chesapeake Bay.