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Sitting in SFO. Currently scheduled to splash on Thursday morning.

Adventuroes day of sailing to get from West End to Freeport. We are currently a few miles from Freeport in the Grand Bahamas Yacht Club Marina.

Helen had stomach issues and we decided to stay put for an extra day as we do not want any emergencies while crossing Gulf Stream.

We are waiting for the weather to clear and plan to jump across the Gulf Stream on Sunday.

Unfortunately, our shake out sail had introduced more delays, and requires more fixes than we have anticipated. Also, our tag along sailboat had unanticipated issues on its own and will not be going to BVI until last week of April.

We now plan to stay in Bahamas, enjoy a week or so of nice water, snorkel and sun. Then most of the team will head back home.

Meanwhile, I will arrange more repairs to get the boat ready to go to the BVI, and we will try again in April.

Vadim

We spent the night at anchor in the Gulf of Mexico in front of the city Nokomis. In the morning weighted anchor and got to the Venice Crows Marina. Got 40 gallons of fuel and now motor sailing to the Key West.

With prop replaced and thruster fixed, we got 10kts at full throttle. Refreshing. And docking was a breeze.

We are making progress. Slow but steady 😜 learning a lot of systems. Plumbing, watermaker, autopilot, 3 different day’s networks and various instruments with multiple backups.

Our new schedule:
Bring boat to the boatyard tomorrow morning. They will take the boat out and fix now thruster and replace the prop with the simple but dependable fixed prop.

We then return back to the Twin Dolphin Marina for a few days to wait for a nice weather and continue to prep and fix.

We aim to leave for Key West Saturday morning.