We're setting sail! Our family of five is leaving our cozy home in Duxbury, MA to live aboard our Beneteau 461, Chere. We will start on board in January in Charleston, SC and make our way south to the Bahamas for the winter. We are home-schooling our three boys Nat (12), Ben (9) and Win (6) as we travel.

Email us at: duxdavenport@gmail.com; samuel.f.davenport@gmail.com; nathaniel.f.davenport@gmail.com; benjamin.c.davenport@gmail.com

We have one cell phone activated....call us anytime!
339-832-0595

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Almost Ready

Not too much to report today.  Another beautiful day down here, other than the fact that I spent a good chunk of it finishing up replumbing the forward head.  The good news is that it's done (whew!), working well, and that SMELL is gone.  The bad news is that my boys learned a few new words today, most of them while I was hunched under the sink wrenching out old sewage hose.  Fun stuff.  I also tackled the wifi antenna.  Those of you who know my computer skills can imagine how that went.  But somehow it works, and we now have wifi on the boat, borrowed from a distant hotspot somewhere down the shore.

Betsy continues to make lots of supplies disappear everywhere on the boat and make sure that the boat is shipshape for departure.  She's quite the magician.  We're now thinking that between the weather and tides (the dock owner tells me getting out of this creek is very tricky -- stay tuned for an interesting entry) we'll plan on shoving off first thing Thursday morning, heading down the ICW toward Beaufort, SC. 

It's starting to rain outside, so I'm going to hunker down and head to bed.  We love hearing from everyone, so keep the emails/posts coming.  More later . . . .  Sam

1 comment:

  1. I hope you guys don't have more problems!

    Love,
    Ali :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
    (Your cousin)

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