As of today, we only have 7 more days until the start of the ARC. We got a lot of big boat projects done yesterday, including repacking the forward locker, moving the anchor & chain, and cleaning and packing the dinghy. That pretty much took up our entire day.

A couple days ago there was a big welcome party in town. I didn't much enjoy it, but my dad, Elise, and Andy did. Oh, by the way, Andy arrived two days ago. For some reason, we thought that he would be arriving on the 11th, but we were a bit surprised when it got to be 8:00 and he hadn't dropped by.

Today Pedro is having his legendary dinghy race. It promises to be a hot day, so the racers should have plenty of excuses to get wet. Our dock is 'little Norway' (about half a dozen of the boats are Norwegian), and many of them are in it. I'm not.