{"id":155987,"date":"2016-06-05T15:36:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T15:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapossibilitadiunisola.wordpress.com\/?p=155987"},"modified":"2016-06-05T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T15:36:24","slug":"two-months-living-aboard-and-final-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lapossibilitadiunisola.com\/blog\/two-months-living-aboard-and-final-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Two months living aboard and final preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"

We hit the two months mark since we have moved back aboard Tranquility. So far it has been 24\/7 work and I suspect it won\u2019t end very soon. The difference with the previous condition is that now we are finally untethered: we sold the car, we have a provisioned and fully mobile boat and we took care of few bureaucratic conundrums strictly related with life on land. So now we can move where it pleases us!<\/p>\n

Not too fast, though. The brake at this point is the condition of the boat that keep changing over time. We are making constant improvements in the degree of comfort and sailing performances since the beginning of April. Like the life cycle of a star, the interior and the deck keep going through a alternate state of expansion and contractions. Tools and parts come out of storage, the content of every locker and box has to be moved around, and everything shifts and gets hauled somewhere else. Every time things are put back together we can see the improvements, but then the next job brings more chaos aboard. It is definitely not easy to live and work on a boat, and this is so far limiting our mobility. Luckily we can work at anchor so we don\u2019t have to necessarily be tied to the land, and every trip ashore we unload garbage and unnecessary items gaining more and more living space.<\/p>\n

Despite this apparently erratic behavior our preparation happened with a specific spreadsheet-assisted path. Every step put us closer to certain milestones and eventually to the end of the preparation and the beginning of the trip.<\/p>\n

The first milestone was to leave the docks. After two years spent running a landlocked life, Tranquility was able to get unchained and make a very slow progress toward the next step, the boatyard. It took us a few days to get there. Our destination was rather close but we experienced issues with some freeloading marine animals and vegetables that were squatting peacefully on the bottom of our boat seriously limiting our speed on the water and ultimately on the ground. Once we were lifted outside of the water they were brutally eliminated, with little or none compassion. This slow pace made for nice time outdoor, timing the tides we moved from anchorage to anchorage, savoring wonderful sceneries between St.Simons and Cumberland Island, all the way into St.Marys and the boatyard.<\/p>\n