Completing our Journey: Making it home and taking a look back

Hello and welcome back!
So sorry for the long delay since the last post. Things are very busy at the boat so finding time to edit these videos has been a challenge.

Video highlights from Victoria to Anacortes and a financial breakdown of our trip

A look back at our trip- Part 1 

Anywho, we left you with us enjoying Victoria with friends and family. After a couple of really fun days we made our way back to The States. That portion of the trip was pretty uneventful: Customs was a breeze, weather was calm, and after two days we rolled back into our old slip in Anacortes.

We learned so much on this trip that I could not possibly begin to explain everything. The biggest thing we learned is that we like cruising, and that WE CAN DO IT! We were total rookies at the start, never having dropped an anchor before, and 840 miles later we successfully made it back to our homeport. Now, we aren't experts or anything, but we gained so many skills and confidence in our abilities. We honestly didn't sail much (probably under 10% of the time), so we have a lot to learn there, but that's ok though because by motoring most of the way, that afforded us time to focus on other things such as the boat systems and navigation.

So yea.... Mission accomplished!

We landed back in Anacortes and got to organizing the boat and readjusting to life back at the dock. We learned a lot about the boat during our trip North. We got to know Maya a lot better and that allowed us to make a priority list of things that need to change on the boat. I'll briefly list out some of the main things we are going to work on over the winter:

1. Leaky Portlights and Hatches (they basically all leak so those are going to need work)
2. Plumbing issues. We discovered we were only using one tank of water (we have two) so a deeper dive is needed to look at why that is going on. Also, we have had issues with the vent line plugging.... lots of issues with the plumbing that we are going to look at.
3. Some electrical things- sprucing some things up and making some small changes.
4. Engine work- our engine is in great shape, but we are looking to add an anti-siphon loop which could potentially save the engine should we find ourselves in a following sea condition (I'll explain more in a upcoming blog post).
5. Like a million other little things.

So those are the upcoming maintenance items we are going to look at (among others) during winter.

OK, so that about does it for this blog post. My apologies that this one is a little short and lacking in pics, but in place of those is a Part 1 of our trip recap video montage. Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by and we hope to see you soon! Cheers!