A long voyage typically takes weeks or even months to plan, but not in our case. For us it started during our spring vacation to Florida in April 2011 when I got a call from a recruiter for a job in Tampa. Little did we know that a simple call could change your life in a matter of minutes.
Back in Puerto Rico, I received a second call offering me the job, and a starting date of mid May. Within days we had to sell the house and most of our worldly possessions, including our furniture and cars, haul out the boat for two weeks at the Ponce Yacht & Fishing Club, to do a bottom job, change the cutlass bearing, inspect the shaft seal, install a new A/C and wax the hull. We also had our rigging inspected and our main sail repaired.
