Out to Anchor! AT&T back to Bad again!!!

Finally we will go out of the boatyard and anchor to get ready to go out to sea!
Today was a bit frustrating but it is over... all the long days of waiting and doing nothing and waiting  tearing things out putting them back over and over again etc...
the exciting thing is that on the wheel we now have a chart plotter WITH AIS which means I can see the terrain of the bottom of the sea so we don't go a ground. I can see where to go if we are close to the bottom. Here is the exciting part... while sailing at night we can put on the AIS and big boats will pop up on our screen: we will know the heading, speed and destination, oh the vessel's name and more. In a 12 mile radius we will see a list of all the boats in the vicinity! unlike Radar has those blobs like things (kinda like ultra sound pictures when people say look at my baby and you respond with a smile and say cute even though you don't see anything but blobs) with Radar it is hard to know a buoy from a boat at night. Oh all the buoys are on there too! with numbers! amazing! now I hope it all works.
Well it took a long time to get the electronics to talk with each other and some just plain refused to talk.  On our Single Side Band we don't have our position, but that's ok cuz we have a hand held gps and a gps plotter and we also have iphones with gps. down below we had a monitor that had heading and depth and wind but now nothing which is fine cuz our computer will hook up to the Garmin chart plotter and we will see everything we need to see... that is if the chartplotter will repeat to the computer.  so far they will not talk with each other. we gave up trying. we will try again when we get to NY. It is get out of dodge.  so here are the new plans:
   go to anchor, get the boat in order. Everything is out of cubby holes cuz we pulled everything out to run wires. that should take two days. so by Monday we should be out of jackson creek. Then down to Yorktown to possibly visit Becca and Jason and kids again. Stay a few days? then scoot out to sea where it will take us a few days about 3 depending if we have good favorable winds to Sandy Hook where we will stage to entrance through Hells gate NY through the city. those are the ideas anyway.
I'm so ready to get off the boatyard!!!
   today after Mike finished up. We went swimming and then went out to eat with our New Zealand friends to an excellent restaurant! yumm oh yummm!
Sorry about not calling those people i mentioned yesterday that is because our phones are bad again! they atleast can received text and emails. For Nola about the flags... are about 12 x 16 or so maybe 14x18. they need to have ties on the top and bottom of the leading edge so we can tie them to a line and run them up a flag pole, they don't need to be elaborate and can even be colored with markers although a seamstress that you are I'm sure fabric is your art form media. We won't be going anyplace until Nov or so.
Stay cool
In His arms
Pam