All the plane reservations, car reservations, insurance updates, broker notification, maintenance cancellation, electronics to take for on-board operations (see geek page) are ready to go. Still need to activate the satellite link, reserve the “provisioning marina” and the “destination marina”, and find a source for bean bag chairs in Fort Lauderdale. We’ll have a total of 4 people on-board for this trip, a friend for many years who brings lots of sailing experience to the table, John Turner, our son Christopher Demers, Cathy and myself. Having 4 should make the watches much easier during the gulf passage. We’ll be arriving in Fort Lauderdale via an “overnight red-eye at 6:25 am on Sunday May 14th. Figured it would be better to have an early start to move the boat to Cooley’s Landing Marina, where we’ll do the prep/provisioning for the trip. We’re familiar with this marina, as this is where we de-provisioned the boat back in 2015.