Loose Ends: August 11-15
11 August 2015

Tuesday was spend hauling fishing gear off the boat and into our storage locker. I had to break down all 6 fishing rods, wash the reels, and stow the lures. I also had to get the downrigger and shrimp pot puller off the boat and all 4 of the cannon balls, lead balls for the downrigger. Then, I went out to pick up our rental car. We took our first, of several loads, of fishing gear to our storage locker. Later that day, the technicians came down to explore the autopilot and determine how it was connected. We had dinner with Scott and Alison at Rock & Rye, a place in Bellingham to end the day.
On Wednesday we made more trips, hauling more fishing gear out to the storage locker. David and Brian got going, too, with the autopilot installation and also checking the bilge pump in the gray water holding tank.
On Thursday, Brian rewired our auto bilge pump in Rubber Ducky and they completed the initial install of the new autopilot. We took it out in the bay for sea trials. Then we checked into our hotel and had a nice dinner with Dotie, my sister who lives in Bellingham.
Friday morning we washed the sleeping bags that we use on our boat and stowed them in our storage locker. We had a nice lunch at Olive Garden and then we headed for our hotel in Seattle, near the airport. We had a 5 am departure the next morning to get home. Traffic was the worst we had ever seen. It took us 4 hours to drive down. I returned the rental car and we headed to bed early.
Saturday we flew home via Dallas. We both were upgraded to first class on the leg from Dallas to Hartford. We stopped for ice cream on the drive home from the airport and picked up a subway sandwich for dinner. It was good to be home.