The many facets of preparing
for a six month adventure may upset the normal person. It took us many weeks to
prepare to leave our home on Saturday, 18 October with all the intentions of
not coming back until late April 2015. Just
a short list of forwarding mail, paying all the bills via email, having enough
food on board, shutting down all the systems in the house, and the security of
leaving your home for those many months maybe daunting to most. 
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After receiving radiation
treatments for 4 weeks and the melanoma vaccine, our Cockapoo - Pixie has
developed an open wound area on the right side of her face. She is continually losing hair around this
area. We have a medication but while on a sailboat, but isn’t easy to apply it,
and her normal potty breaks aren’t as natural as on land when you can open the
door to the backyard. Pixie certainly
deserves better treatment than this.
This is our prime reason for turning back.
We sailed on Saturday to
about 25 miles south near Annapolis into a small cove. During the sail we saw 28+ knots of wind and
5’ seas most of the way. The boat can handle
it, but many times the crew cannot. There
is a prediction for heavy air in the next week for almost every day and as you
continue through Virginia & North Carolina it becomes more intense.
Our refrigeration is
using too many amp hours for its operation.
This must be updated. We thought
about stopping on-the-way to have a new one installed, but it will not cure Pixie’s
problem.
Perhaps we may have waited too
long during the month of October to leave.
Four years ago, when we sailed to the Bahamas we left two weeks
earlier. Those days were warmer and the
winds were fair and not as high.
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| Pix waited to come up to the cockpit to join us Our friends, Bill and Joan have come to pick us up  |
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