The Adventure Begins!!!

Very exciting start to the New Year!  We returned to Daytona on January 1st and SY SEGWUN was just as we left her.  We are here with Eric and Liz who will be aboard for the next 2 1/2 months.  It was a bit hectic leaving Toronto ... who knew that so many people would be traveling in the early hours of New Year's day!  The line ups were huge - and our dear friends at Air Canada just had to charge us to bring our bikes with us!  But we are very happy to have wheels.  Thanks to Larry and Michelle with our new folding bikes we can now zip around town and explore our ports of call.  We used them today to get to the grocery store.  What was a 60 minute walk to the WalMart became a quick 10 minute cycle!
During our trip home we had a few projects to finish.  We brought the old sail cover with us and we turned it into two canvas bags for the folding bicycles and a cover for our dinghy motor.  The rest we will use to cover the jerry cans we'll need to buy to have extra fuel on board for our ocean crossing.  I also sewed two new shower curtains, a yellow quarantine flag, and two flags with SEGWUN's logo.

Eric climbed the mast today to put up a block for another flag line.  We now have the Canadian flag and the ship's flag flying!  Photos to come tomorrow. 

We have loaded the fridge and freezer with provisions.  Every nook and cranny is now full of food, beer wine and other necessities.  We have topped up our fuel and water supplies, emptied the holding tank and are now positioned at the dock ready to head out on the ICW in the morning.  We'll continue south for the next few days staying on the ICW as far as we can and then out to the Atlantic and across to the Bahamas.  Ready to go!