JOURNAL01

..........THE VOYAGE OF S/V DREAMCATCHER

Well, as most of you know, Glenys and I have decided to cut ties with
the dock and try the cruising life for a while...... we've been working
hard on Dreamcatcher, and she's just about ready to go thanks to
hardwork and the efforts of many of our friends..... we leave our home
dock at Jack London Square on September 5th**, and will "hang out" in
San Francisco Bay to test out some routines and new electronic
systems. We are then ready to set sail down the coast of California, to
Mexico, before starting across the Pacific in March/April next year.
We'll take some time off sailing to visit Asia and Perth around
Christmas time to get our land legs back.

There's a proposed itinerary attached (subject to change with wind and
whim), along with contact details.

We're looking forward to the change of pace, the different lifestyleand
the experiences along the way..... no doubt there'll be times when both
of us wished we'd never left the corporate cubicle, but.......

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in
your sails.Explore. Dream. Discover. "......Mark Twain

love,
Henry & Glenys

PS: if you wish to alter your email address, or don't want to receivethe
occasional sailing chronicle, please advise to hmellegers@yahoo.com.
PPS: Glenys is also sending this out to "her" mailing list, so apologies
in advance if you get this twice - we'll get around to list
management

**Real departure date was September 28, 8:00 A.M sailing underneath
the Golden Gate Bridge

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