Plans to go home

Plans are moving along, The car has been retrieved in a quick trip, Latitudes will be pulled and put on the hard on Wednesday, and we hope to leave St. Marys on Thursday.  We still need to pick up a car from Charlotte, but that is just a detour.

Smoke doesn't know that her wonderful, calm house awaits her - she dozes like a cat, lazing with me while I blog.

 

The packing has begun, bags to put in the car are starting to pile up in available spaces.

 

 

There are a lot more bags to pack.  We will work on them on this dreary, rainy day. The goal is to be able to unload most of the stuff from Latitudes before she is actually put up on stands. The whole area has an 8 ft tidal range, and the boat yard docks are too shallow for us to use about half the time. That's why we're still at anchor.  Luke has made a friend with the next-door shrimper ---- who just happens to have a deep water dock next to the boat yard.   He is willing to let us use his dock on Wednesday morning to unload the boat.  Here is St. Mary's Boat Services, the small marina where Latitudes will live for now.

 

 

 

After Latitudes is out of the water, we will still have to do last-hours closing chores like taking down the dodger and bimini, securing the dinghy, getting the last few things off, and closing up Lats for the summer.  That always takes longer than anticipated. But it means we're going home!