Start of a 10 day trip

It is Thursday prior to Memorial Day weekend and DBA on a yacht is underway towards our first nights destination on a 10 day boat trip in the San Juan Islands. The image above is where we are at as I start to write this blog post.
We are going to start at our usual hangout of Roche Harbor, then see where we go for a few days and end up back at Roche Harbor as our last days of the trip.
This trip is part vacation, part work, and part play.
Some friends had decided to not go boating this weekend due to the cost of diesel right now. Instead, I said, lets just not come back right away. That way we can get the most use of the boat without burning extra fuel to come home during the week.
With my laptop, Starlink internet, and a new monitor on board, I should be able to do everything I need to do for work without returning home.
I walk chatting with one of the team members at Stedman Solutions, and he said we could just sell the house now, and work from the middle of the ocean on the boat if I wanted to. Not a bad idea. But for now this is baby steps, 10 days will be the long trip so far and having on spent a total of 46 days on the boat since we purchased it 2.5 years ago, this is a big step for us. Who knows if things go well, perhaps our next trip might be even longer.
Also on this trip, I have a small side coding project that I am working on. I have a number of monitoring computers (Rapberry PI’s) running on the boat that pull all kinds of vitals and submits them into my SQL Server running at home. From there I do monitoring, alerting and reporting. I just added GPS support to that process, so every minute my GPS coordinates are being stored in my SQL Server running at home. On the database I have a stored procedure that then pulls the coordinates and creates a KML file for Google Earth.
While I write this post we are about half way on our journey to Roche Harbor, a two hour trip travelling at 10.1mph.