A log awaited update

So I guess it's been a while since our last update. To be honest there hasn't been much to write about. I haven't been on the boat for a couple months but David is still on Bruadair which is still in the Bocas Yacht Club in Bocas del Toro, Panama. It is the rainy season so it's been raining some. David has become good friends with Charlie who is on a boat across the dock from Bruadair. David's been busy collecting and sorting his extensive book collection on his Kindle. I recently spent a few weeks with my mother and fell in love with her Ipad. I can't justify needing an Ipad or tablet on my boat, but I've never needed to justify any of my electronic toys in the past so who knows, maybe I'll get a new toy. Actually, if I do, it won't be an Ipad but a tablet that supports sim cards and 3g so I can get internet on it. But David and I have been discussing replacing all the standing rigging on our boat, that's all the wires that hold up the mast. Standing rigging usually needs to be replaced every 10 years, we're do. It's expensive though so we might put it off another year, we've spent enough money this year and last years to putting a few things off for a year to recuperate might be necessary.

A couple of months ago I sent in our autopilot for warranty replacement, the new one is being shipped out soon with a new software update that won't be released until early next year. I have no idea what the update does but I hope to find out.

Currently our plan is to leave the yacht club on March 3rd. We'll go out to the anchorage for a couple of weeks and hire a local boy to wash and wax the boat while we test all the systems to make sure everything is in good order. Then we'll either sail north to Isla Providencia or east to the San Blas Islands.

Ashley has been doing really good. She's getting old though at 18.5 years old, so she's sleeping a lot lately. I'm sure I would do the same if I was pretty old too (not quite there yet).

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