Well, the boat is more or less improved and ready to go. We put on a marine grade Balmar alternator, changed the belt to a serpentine belt with adjustable tensioner, got a new bigger and heavier anchor, and our inverter is now properly wired, though we still have yet to get the solar panels. We'll do that in Florida at some point.
But that will be later. The weather forecast is pretty much garbage for the foreseeable future, with a few days of nice weather scattered in between days of 30 to 50 knot winds, cold temperatures, and rain, rain, rain.
As I said before, this is a pleasure cruise, not a misery cruise. So we're staying put. But we have tickets to fly back to Detroit out of New Orleans (call it the Neo-French Connection) on February 12th, so we're renting a car on the 10th and driving into New Orleans. We'll spend a couple days there seeing the sights before catching our flight the night of the 12th.
Then we'll spend two weeks in Detroit, I have a doctors appointment, my dad has several appointments, too. When we're ready we'll hook the trailer to the Buick, load up with all the rest of our possessions, then drive it down LaBelle, Florida to store everything, which will complete our move.
Next we have a friend in Lakeland, Florida, who will pick us up and drive us back to the boat. Sometime in early March we'll get the boat down there, and possibly hit the Florida Keys as well. We have some travelling to do! But the weather should be greatly improved.
