It is the morning of December 9th (Thursday) and we are preparing to take the boat offshore again.  The engine mechanic came on Monday and the engine checked out OK.  He tightened a few belts but overall it looked fine.  That was certainly a relief and worth the cost of a tuneup.  Chris the sailmaker returned our sail with a …

Georgetown slideshow:  www.sailawaywebdesign.com/georgetown.html.

So we headed out around 2 pm on Thursday.  Ryan’s Dad, my parents, Frank, Polly and Joe Murphy were there to see us off.  Julia took us out of the channel into the Intercoastal Waterway.  We were doing pretty well for the first 4 or 5 minutes but managed to run aground right outside of the first marker!  It was …

We are still working on getting the SPOT GPS Tracker to work.  I’ll check out the manual today and hopefully we will be able to get it working before we head offshore again.  -Daniel

A few pictures to capture the moment…

We just created our SPOT tracking page.  Here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/39gopy5. Now you can follow our progress throughout the trip.  There are a couple of different features that we will be using.  One will be periodic updates that post to the site when we choose.  Another will be the “Track Progress” feature.  We can turn that on and it …

Woah!  The very first post of our Adventure Log!  Feel free to comment on any of the posts and let us know what you think.  Those of you that know me (Daniel) know that I will be taking tons of photos and Ryan has an underwater HD camera so we will have lots of good videos too!  We have been …