A very quick update.

Today is stow day, tomorrow is go day. We'll drop the car off at Anna's tonight (they're going to take care of selling it for us) and then we're leaving first thing in the morning. That's the plan, anyway.

The last couple of days have been crazy. We're having parts for the furnace shipped to Shelburne, and we've given up on the autopilot. Rich (above and beyond the call) Knowles spent two long evenings trying to make it work, but we've decided it's just not going to pull through, so we've put it out of its misery. Tom took a turn in the depths under the cockpit and removed the rest of the workings and did some other fastening and fixing while he was down there. Not to mention a bit of bilge fishing whenever he dropped a tool.

We're very ready to be on the road -- mentally anyway. We've got another load or two to get from Randy's sister Heather's basement (thanks, Heather!) and a few more things to return to Duncan St. The Dartmouth Yacht Club has been a great place to get ourselves sorted out to leave. The people here have been really helpful. I'll almost miss the sound of tons of gypsum being loaded on ships in the middle of the night, and the sound of the train whistles. There's a couple of tough goodbyes already behind us, and a few more still to come, lots of tidying up, and we'll probably be smacking our foreheads as we leave the harbour when we remember the various bits and pieces and loose ends left untied.

No matter, we'll be on our way.