"We're Burnin' Daylight" ........John Wayne from movie 'The Cowboys'

As I sit here trying to put a halfway coherent blog entry together, it dawns on me that I have no job, no income, no house, no furniture, no real clothes, no pets, no shoes other than flip flops and an old beat up pair of black Chucks, no real estate, no possessions except  boat stuff, a DELL laptop, a Kindle Fire,  a 12 year old F-150 with 265,000 miles on it, and ZOSHA..... my         1978....PAID FOR Westsail 28......

Whoo Hoo my friends....you are looking at a happy man!......Yeah Buddy!!!!
Its finally time to quit screwin' around and get ZOSHA ready and leave for Florida, Bahamas, and, possibly, the Caribe.......

Before the journey can begin, like all cruising endeavors, there are a few things that need to be done to ZOSHA to get her ready for the journey. My intent for the next few blogs is to take you guys along on the projects that need to be done before we can leave. These projects are all relatively minor things except one which could be a royal PIA to fix.....Oh oh I'm getting ahead of myself...... 

Deadlines and time tables make me nervous but I am going to stick my neck out here and say that we are going to leave Galveston in August 2014 which BTW is the beginning of prime hurricane season for the Gulf Coast and head offshore for a couple days to Port Isabel, Texas and spend the rest of hurricane season tied up there. While there we are going to drop the mast, strip it, clean it, prime it, paint it, rewire it and install new VHF antenna, 
nav (tri color), spreader, foredeck, steaming, and anchor lights and any new hardware as necessary......after that we'll sit till hurricane season is over and a weather window develops that will let us get to Florida safely. 

Until next time.....take care my friends.......