Pull To Inflate

Winslow Life Raft

The instructions begin, "Do not inflate unless there are no other options." A very sensible instruction indeed. Compared to this 50 lb package, Passport seems like a much better place to be. After a couple days of calling Fedex and finally tracking it down, our liferaft is now safely stowed aboard our vessel. So long as the gods smile upon us, we will tote around this little package on our voyage and never see it's contents. What an expensive purchase for something we never plan to see! But then much of life never goes according to plan, so we have a backup plan, when all else fails "Pull to Inflate".

After stopping in Portsmouth to collect our liferaft, we had planned to journey on down the intercoastal. We arrived on Monday, it's now Thursday, we are still here. So much for plans. For two days we have been waiting for the winds to die down. Maybe tomorrow we will depart and journey further south.