November 2014

11/9/14  A more fitting blogspot title may be required at some point.  Persephone is not sailing and not selling as of yet.  She is on her jackstands covered with tarps at Callahan's Marina on Oneida Lake near Syracuse, NY.  We do have her for sale which is why we are not venturing out along the Erie Canal to further points south aboard her this season. 
This season we are aboard "Valkyrie" (57' Swan ketch) with Ryan and Kari who generously invited us (as they did last year) to sail to the Caribbean with them.  So we packed up a rental car with the help of our good friend Deb back in Pennellville, NY and headed for Deltaville, VA on the Chesapeake.

Deb helps pack everything as we leave from her house Tuesday morning.

Kurd supervises.

Karen aboard Valkyrie with our car load of stuff in the cockpit.

Installations, improvements, clean-ups and provisioning along with stories, laughs, and sharing have been taking place for the last 6 days in order to be ready to sail ASAP.  A nice dinner with Kari's family was a perfect way to celebrate tonight, Sunday evening, before we sail off this week.
Valkyrie has a SPOT locator.  You should be able to view our position on http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=1U9eCr5MW6F4u3rbKUQKfMAHCkhH5IWab with the password bobbob.  Ryan also has a website www.aboardvalkyrie.com where you may be able to click on "Current Position" to see where we are.  With any luck, we'll  head out of here Tuesday and go south towards Beaufort, NC.  We may stop and anchor for the right weather window or continue on to the Caribbean.  As always, our sailing plans are based on the right winds.