Everything feels so damp, cold and wet. I need to remember to investigate replacement gaskets for the windows. I've got drips all over the place from the rains pelting the boat. One good thing, my windows are no longer salt covered J. The latest news on the weather systems we were watching - the one on us yesterday was never named (it should have been too - all you needed to do was look at the weather map and you could see it was a depression at least) feels like it's past us finally and it sounds like we have tropical storm Kyle off Bermuda that's trying to become a hurricane heading up the coast. Another low is riding up that looks like it will intersect Kyle so I'm not sure when we'll get to leave here. I wasn't far off when I was joking about "a week in Jersey" I guess. I decided that I needed to make cinnamon rolls this morning - it will heat up the boat and make it smell good too LOL. I think that the alcohol stove and I are making friends little by little. It just takes time for it to come up to speed and as long as I don't require a great amount of heat - hey, we'll get used to each other LOL. I noticed Skip and Lydia were up top when I was hanging out our wet, salty clothes to rinse in the rain this morning and after the cinnamon rolls came out of the oven waved at them to pick up the radio, and invited them over for rolls and grapes. I couldn't figure out how to invite them for coffee because we only had 2 cups but Skip was saying he was brewing his second cup so I told him they could bring them over here so that worked out well. My rolls were a little over done but I really enjoyed having them over and chatting with them. We're the only 2 boats that stayed at anchor through this mess - don't know where everyone else went but now I noticed that the single handler is back and anchored behind us this evening. I felt bad for him the other morning. He was up all night and up top a lot during that awful weather in the morning too before taking off. Since he's back he probably picked up a mooring here for last nights 2nd round of weather.

Ahhhh, clean hair again! After Lydia & Skip took off I washed my hair. The pump to drain the water out of the tub wouldn't work (if it's not one thing it's another) so Wayne took that apart and fixed it, then decided to bleed the accumulator pump to the water pump so that it would be more efficient. Next was to fix the chain back to the windlass (we had all 200 ft of chain out during the "un-named weather system that roared through here for 2 days), gas up the generator and move on to dinner. During dinner we heard the bilge pump kick on and thought it was just an accumulation from all the rain. It kept kicking on and off which was unusual so to ease my mind, Wayne had to lift up the floorboards again to show me it was dry but I kept hearing a trickle. On further investigation it looked like we had a small river running from the pump into the bilge. Some plastic fitting was broken and the water from our water tank was slowly draining out. We managed to get that pinched off and so far the bilge pump hasn't kicked back on since we stopped our fresh water leak. Hopefully tomorrow the water will stay calm enough for us to run into town to the hardware and see if they have a replacement part or we'll be toting water in plastic containers again! It's been rainy/foggy/drizzly today but fairly calm... hardly a ripple to be seen after watching waves with ripples blowing over other waves with ripples, it seems quite eerie with the fog.