The Official Day From Hell.

Sandy fixing the computer.

With all good hopes of leaving at 12:00 p.m., the last minute work that was being done on the watermaker had us slide right past that noon hour and they didn’t finish until 4:00 p.m..  But that frustration paled by comparison to what the ship’s computer had waiting for us… which was exactly nothing. 

When I went to get on the internet yesterday morning there was no internet, not much of anything else either.  All the software programs icons were on the screen but when I tried to access anyone of them the computer either would or wouldn’t open them.  Seeing as internet access is 75% of this trip and apart from posting blogs and pics we need access to the ice charts, we were in it and in it deep!  A frantic call to Sandy and he was up here from CT by 9:00 a.m.  A very long (he didn’t finish working on the computer until 11:00 p.m.) and extremely tedious story made short, we had a massive computer crash on our hands. Sandy had to do three day’s work in one and completely rebuild the computer. By the end of the day we were all so stressed by this news as well as trying to find room aboard for literally a ton of last minute items, we called off the departure for 12 hours.  We’ve a five month trip ahead of us and starting off with a sleep deficit for the sake of 12 hours seemed pretty insane. 

So, here we are, still packing and a projected 10:00 a.m departure seems very doable… Oh yeah, forgot to mention the part about Newport’s finest arresting my son for driving a 49cc moped without a license.  Granted, by the book he was totally in the wrong, but as he’s from Denver where it seems a person doesn’t need a license for a moped  he wasn’t aware of the law here.  According to a witness he admitted his wrong and was every bit the gentleman, according to the same witness the arresting offers were anything but.  After going down to the police station  (they did find it necessary to place this hardened criminal in a cell) we came back to the boat and collapsed.  He has to come back to stand trial June 25^th but according to our itinerary he’ll be in Greenland with us. More phone calls needed this morning. A very sad send-off gesture nonetheless… Perhaps we should have invited Newport’s finest to the party?