What can you do in 24 hours when preparing for a boat trip… purchase 31 items ranging from sanding disks, to grease guns to voltmeters at 3 separate stores; Home Depot, Rogers Hardware and Sears. See Team Audax perform 16 hours of solid work to include wire brushing rusty propane tanks to ready for spray paint to ultimatley convince Dale they will not blow up so as to fill and enable hot cocoa! Varnish floor boards, reinstall trim, restep the stick (aka put the mast back in the boat), tighten hose clamps, troubleshoot electrical, research high gain amplifying antennas, learn that one needs to register your EPIRB, take a moment to thank the lord the stock market :), put floor boards back in place, etc etc etc…..
Time now for a few minutes of reading about our battery monitor, a bit or rest and back at it tomorrow. Why do people launch themselves at journeys such as this one? What is the reason for our quest to adventure? To find ourselves, to explore, learn something new, reevaluate a life we may not be fully satisfied with, perhaps come to the realizations the life we have is the one we really want, to test our abilities, to test our mettle, simply pure adrenaline rushes??????