Yesterday, Bruce and Chris (husband and wife) from Minnesota arrived after an overnight crossing, mostly into the wind. They are traveling on a Morgan 30 - a 1960’s boat. It has been completely restored and upgraded.

My big job was washing my bed sheets. I had to use my big bucket :-). I also ran the watermaker. We took two dinghies worth of jerry jugs over to the fuel dock to get ready for our next trip. Unfortunately, it was low tide, so we had to use the ladder to get in and out of the dinghy and it made handing down full five gallon jerry jugs more interesting.

The day ended with cocktails on my boat, so there were 8 people in my cockpit. That’s full for me.

More laundry today and I learned a valuable lesson about making sure the bucket is really empty before dumping out the water. It was low tide and no way to reach the shirt as it slowly drifted away with the current. I was washing on the dock where the fresh water spicket was. I had to jump down to the boat to grab the boat hook, then get back up on the dock so I could fish the shirt out before it drifted away. It was a shirt I didn’t want to lose.

Yesterday it was topping off with fuel, today it was water. I also went to one of the local stores and bought a half gallon of milk, one box of cereal, one tomato: $15

Tonight the folks from five boats gathered to discuss our plans for tomorrow. Right now the wind is howling - 20’s, - but it is supposed to die down after midnight and change direction. What direction you ask? Why the direction we want to go in, of course. The plan is to leave tomorrow morning. We shall see.