Hey Internet,

In addition to our fine ship EXIT, we have other craft aboard too. First is our AB dinghy, which we love:

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We’re off!

We managed to pull away from the docks on Saturday around lunchtime after the windlass was repaired. Naturally, the exact moment we were ready to pull away — a tricky maneuver as we were positioned closely between two huge, expensive-looking yachts, and the wind was blowing us firmly back into the dock — three Englishmen who were wandering about looking at boats stopped to chat. So there we stood, engine rumbling, going on about how fair Exit’s hull was and yes, she’d come across the Atlantic on her own bottom many years earlier. They were very nice, but once they learned we were about to shove off on the start of a year-long trip, they decided to stay. And spectate. Oy.

Drew kept his cool and after a few tries we ended up backing out and away instead. No harm no foul.

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Today we finally got out of Lyman Moorse Boatbuilding. It was wonderful. We had a bunch of old British guys to literally shove us off. Later, we encountered a large storm with damaging winds and ping-pong ball sized hail. (We weren’t actually in the storm, I heard that off the radio.) We thought that the storm was going to hit us, but it didn’t.

Syndicated from Soren’s Realm.