Today was sure frustrating day Wayne, the man who is transporting the boat, was supposed to pick me up at "noontime or shortly thereafter".  Peter Mchenry and I went to the yacht club real early with all of the stuff for the trip including all the provisions with ice and everything else to loaded up the boat and we had it all ready to ship by 11:30.  Wayne never showed up.  When I called to ask about an ETA he told me the bearings on one of his axles broke on the way to pick up Cachalot.  He said he would try to get the parts and repair the trailer and call me when he could know for certain the time he could pick up the boat.  I spent the day on the phone and Internet on my iPhone trying to arrange a back up plan.  At the end of the day I had made no progress and was very frustrated.  About 8:30 tonight he called and they had the parts for the trailer was planning to repair the trailer on Wednesday and pick me up at 10 o'clock Thursday morning.  With this new pickup time I will be arriving with the boat in Annapolis at around 6:30 or 7 o'clock at night.  I will have to call Bert Jaben Yacht yard tomorrow and tell them of my new arrival time.  Jeff and Rich are planning to leave very early Friday morning and driving to Annapolis and meet me Friday night.  If all goes well we will plan on starting our sailing trip early Sunday morning.  I hope with this disastrous start the rest of the trip goes smoothly.  

Tomorrow I plan to work on the house to get it ready for closing and maybe I will not have to make a trip up from NC just to work on the house for closeing.

I would like to take the time to acknowledge and thank all of our friends and neighbors who havr helped Susan and I close up this house and helped me plan and execute all of the work necessary to make this great adventure and dream come true.  Our friends have really outdone themselves and are to numerous to name without taking the chance of missing somebody so thank you one and all.  We are greatly indebted to you and will miss you and Needham as we start the next chapter of our life.