11/18/08 - Brett Arrives at Boat

After a car ride, train trip, two flights with delays and a rental car, he finally made it to Benevolence at 2:00am his time last night. He called and was ecstatic to report that everything looked exactly the same except the dinghy was in the water and the batteries were low. He was not so happy to report the cold. He started the propane stove and dug up some chocolate pudding to munch on. I laugh as I remember that pudding. I had bought 42 servings of the hand-pak puddings because Brett liked pudding. We had pudding coming out of our ears while underway. LOLHis main goal today is to charge the batteries and find out if they are still good and to monitor the wind generator. He thinks that the bilge pump under the engine might have been pumping and that is what drained the batteries.But there is no mold. No army of cockroaches. We didn't lose our teak boards in the cockpit that were left ot brave the hurricane. Benevolence is in good shape and Brett is enjoying his time away to refocus on his goals and remember how blessed we are to own such a beautiful boat.