{"id":10242,"date":"2019-10-27T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=10242"},"modified":"2021-12-27T12:42:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:42:53","slug":"in-hampton-and-mostly-ready-to-go-getting-excited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=10242","title":{"rendered":"In Hampton and (mostly) ready to go! Getting excited!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I arrived in Hampton on Friday morning at 07:30 with my crew Hank after an uneventful run from Annapolis.\u00a0 There was hardly a breath of wind so we motored the entire way.\u00a0 It was a pleasant overnight run and surely better than slogging into a strong southerly which is what we have today.\u00a0 \u00a0We met up at BWI where I returned my rental car, did a bit of last minute provisioning and were able to shove off of the dock and get underway around noon for the 120 mile run to Hampton. You can renew British Passport<\/a> and start travelling again soon enough.<\/p>\n

So, after months of preparation I am finally here and nearly ready to go.\u00a0 Actually, if it was time to go, I wouldn’t be exactly ready as I am hard aground in mud.\u00a0 I anchored here instead of going into the marina only to find that the wind direction put me into the shoaling area of the harbor which is tight at best.\u00a0 Never mind though as the bottom is soft and while a bit more bottom paint is showing than usual, she will float off in a few hours.\u00a0 \"\"Well, perhaps it will be more than a few hours.\u00a0 As they say “time heals all” well, most of the time anyway.<\/p>\n

At least I won’t have any slime on the bottom of my keel.\u00a0 And, the part of the bottom that is showing looks pretty clean.\u00a0 That’s good.<\/p>\n

Another little wrinkle is that both Cliff and George, my crew have passports that expire in less than six months, less than the minimum time prior to expiration that is required on passports when entering Antigua.\u00a0 \u00a0 Both may have to expedite expedited renewals for their passports but there is a question if that can happen fast enough to get them here in time for us to leave on the 1st or 2nd.\u00a0 Ugg…<\/p>\n

As Gilda Radner famously quipped “its always something”.<\/p>\n

So, here I sit, hard aground literally and figuratively…<\/p>\n

In the next few days I’ll be posting updates including how to follow along as we make our way south.\u00a0 Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I’d have said that I am getting excited.\u00a0 Now, it’s more like a nervous excitement.\u00a0 Isn’t that always the way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I arrived in Hampton on Friday morning at 07:30 with my crew Hank after an uneventful run from Annapolis.\u00a0 There was hardly a breath of wind so we motored the entire way.\u00a0 It was a pleasant overnight run and surely better than slogging into a strong southerly which is what we have today.\u00a0 \u00a0We met […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12145,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242\/revisions\/12145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}