Our only home now floats! We packed up the place in DC and moved our belongings into a storage locker in Annapolis (insert "Storage Wars" joke here). The past week has been consumed by beginning the provisioning of food and supplies for the next year - yes, you can buy 70 rolls of toilet paper in one package! Each can of Chunky Soup, Beefaroni, Dinty Moore stew (yuck) has had the paper label removed and the content written via Sharpie on the can - why, you might ask? One word - cockroaches. We don't have them and want to keep it that way - most sailors prohibit paper or cardboard as a way to keep away microscopic cockroach eggs from setting up home in the many recesses of a sailboat. We have a full meal plan developed for the 10+ days at sea on our way to the British Virgin Islands - a healthy mix of fresh and canned ingredients. It is unlikely that either of us will be the Emeril of the high seas anytime soon. One wildcard in our food plans........we've purchased fishing technology (including hooks the size of your hand) for our trip through the gulf stream, where 100 lb dorado and wahoo are routinely caught by the experts. Might one profoundly stupid specimen bite our hook ?
