Not bad for novices

Ed, Jim, Dusty, Luna and George

Bob reviewed our data and re-calcutated our legs, and while we are still in 4th place but, our percentage of error is 1.1 percent or less. Much better than the 15.1 percent we had previously scored! Bob said "Not bad for novices."

Today we departed from Pruth Bay. We will be back on our way back to Port Orchard. Our route to the competition start was partially in the open ocean. The gyro-stabilizer was off and the waves were big rollers with a 9+ second interval so the boat road them nicely. We finally turned to head northeast and put the swells behind us.

We soon approached our starting point which was a running start at 8.95 knots, not 10.3 miles (they are actually the same speed). We hailed a fishing trawler and asked him to please cooperate with us as we were running a timed race and could he please avoid crowding us. He obliged us.

The Robert Magnus.

We finished our competitive leg of the trip and headed to Shearwater where we found Blue Span and Azzura moored. I took the girls to our cabin while we were taking on fuel. My wild child, Luna decided she needed to supervise the whole evolution through the port lights.

Luna the wild child..

After we moored we attempted to take on water but the pressure is, in a word, AWFUL. The community depends on a Artesian well for water and I believe that the water is not pressurized so it trickled into our boat for about 3 hours and raised our tank level to abouit 45%. We will try later on to fill the water tank.

While the water was trickling, we hit the local grocery store. Apparently they are waiting for their resupply to arrive so stock levels are low. Four of us picked over the stock and selected what we wanted or suitable substitute to replenish our supplies of food stuff. While the rest of the crew returned to the boat carrrying the treasure trove of groceries, in a cart that was breathing its last breaths, Ed and I went to the hardware store/chandlery, we bought bear spray, two small compressed air horns. I had to sign a release waiver to use the bear spray.

The locals are friendly, some expressed dislike for our president, and we told them they aren't alone. The young man that is in charge of the marina was recently the gardener for the port and is now the harbor master. He has a doctoral degree in zoology and is biding his time to get a better job with the government. The handy man is eager and capable. He replaced the 30 amp outlets when the originial were found to be unservicable and not hold onto a power cord. He haulded away a broken dockcart and was waiting with a power driver to repair the one the guys used to bring the groceries to the boat.

Tonight we once again had pork for dinner, last night it was ribs tonight it was chops with fresh lettuce salad and stuffing. Ed broke out a bottle of Drunkard's Pie Ciser and Mead. We found flavored mead at the Port Orchard Farmers Market. I had to sleep off a little buzz from the wine and mead I drank while grilling the pork chos and eating dinner.

The girls are a big hit with other boaters in the marina. there is a group of Grand Bank trawlers, of various sizes, that are on a chartered expedition to Ketchican and back to Anacortes. We wish them luck on their joiurney.