We are currently moored in Miami as we try to get our boat in top sailing condition and stock up on provisions.
It has been a long journey since we left our home in Tennessee to become full-time cruisers on our sailboat. We left Grand Marina, in Pickwick, TN, on November 1, 2010. Our first challenge was to have our mast unstepped (taken down) so we could travel down the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway to the Gulf Coast.
The unstepping went pretty smoothly and we we ready to leave in time to make our first anchorage before dark. We waved goodbye and headed down the Tenn-Tom. Then we realized our GPS system was not working. Without it functioning all our wonderful (and expensive) electronic charts were worthless.
We decided our GPS antenna must have been damaged as the mast was taken down. We turned around and headed back to Pickwick to find a replacement antenna. After spending a couple of hours in frustration and borderline panic, we realized we hadn't flipped the switches in the back of the boat that controlled the instruments.
Happily, we had not wasted money on a GPS antenna. Sadly, we were now running late and it would be very challening to reach our anchorage in the daylight. We forged on and experienced our first anchoring in the pitch dark. Bay Springs, MS. Our first 25 miles of travel completed.
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