May 14, 2009
Our ship is a French sloop built in St. Hilaire-de-Riez in 1989, 38 feet 3 inches overall length, 12 feet 10 inches of beam and she draws 5 feet 10 inches. When she was bought to the US from France she was documented under the American flag, Official Number 945615, and named the LIBERTE. She displaced 14,300 pounds when built but now with all our gear and equipment aboard and with her tanks full she must weigh at least 17,5000 pounds.
She is equipped with a 50 horsepower main engine and she has radar, GPS, a depth sounder and wind instruments, a propane cook top and oven in the galley, two marine heads and a full complement of sails. And for travel in Washington and British Columbia, she has the all important dodger and autopilot.
This evening she is lying at her moorings in Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island in Washington State gently tugging on her lines. Her GPS location is 47 degrees 37 minutes of North latitude and 122 degrees 30 minutes of West longitude – she knows that something is up, her bow is pointed to sea and she is ready.
Tomorrow LIBERTE sails with the ebb tide. Her course: Northwest!
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