The Downhill Run begins - sort of.

After along flight from Oz we worked like slaves to antifoul the hull and after a few days were ready for the water.

 

 

 We went to the Deltaville Boatyard where we had organised major maintenance work to be done.

Even though we had liaised for the previous month it proved too difficult to set in motion without significant delays to our schedule.

 

 

 

So, we abandoned Deltaville and set sail for Hampton at the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay.

By now the cold weather had arrived.  7degC in the cabin on waking and scraping ice from the windscreen of the car.

 

After an overnight anchorage at an inlet at the mouth of the Poquoson R we arrived at our marina in Hampton.

 

 

There the boatyard immediately sprang into action and we now have a new bowsprit, a new refrigerator and have had a MAJOR service of the engine.

So, despite the internal chaos which nearly drove the First Mate to despair, all is again tidy aboard JT and we are almost ready to depart with the other 120 yachts in the Salty Dawg Rally when the weather suits. We will make for the Abacos Islands in the northern Bahamas.