![Crew night out - Spanglish spoken!](http://sailingillusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160602_194206-300x225.jpg)
After three (unplanned!) years on Oahu, things finally lined up for us to set sail – engine fixed, crew available, captain recovered from shoulder injury, and reasonable weather conditions.
![20160604_085157](http://sailingillusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160604_085157-300x225.jpg)
The last few days, as always before a big passage, were all about provisioning and preparations, with the added (fun)challenge of teaching Ivan, our friend from Spain, to sail! John, friend of a friend from New York, who joined me to help prep last year, came back for more and actually got to sail this time. Ivan was a last minute addition to our crew, arriving a couple days before we departed. We said our goodbyes to the lovely people we’d gotten to know over the last couple of years, enjoyed a few final swims, runs, and beers, and we were off. We left on the evening of the fourth of June, trying to catch some good wind to get off to a flying start!
![Test sail - at last getting to see the city from the water](http://sailingillusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160602_134350-300x225.jpg)
![Test sail - Diamond Head](http://sailingillusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160602_141315-300x225.jpg)
![Final engine tweaking](http://sailingillusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160604_154303-300x225.jpg)
![Up the mast](http://sailingillusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/DSCF2880-e1468616888989-169x300.jpg)
![Still up there...](http://sailingillusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/DSCF2885-e1468616938738-169x300.jpg)
![Another test sail](http://sailingillusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/DSCF2865-300x169.jpg)
![And off we go....](http://sailingillusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/NightDepartureDI-300x169.jpg)
![Night departure to try to catch some wind](http://sailingillusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/NightDeparture-300x199.jpg)
More about the passage in my next post…..
![No telephone calls for us for a little while....](http://sailingillusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160602_210659-e1468617194466-225x300.jpg)
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