Back in Cruising Mode

MMMM mmmm good. As I write this I'm munching on a handful of coconut meats I extracted from my first coconut the other day.. boy they are GOOD!!


Boy the wind blew hard last night but the lil 22lb Delta and my chain-rope splice seems to have held well. I’m still in the same place. I wasn’t comfortable but I did get some sleep.

Today has been pretty windy and again no problems. Didn’t do much – just hunkered down for the blow.

I adjusted the cables on the steering quadrature to quiet a clanging sound in the pedestal and cleaned and retightened the battery connections to House Battery 2 – it has been recording some wild current draws lately.

Overall the batteries behaved very well overnight and obviously like being equalized in the marina the other day.

The rest of the day was spent reading and relaxing and a long beach walk over at Nipper’s. Gosh during the week the place is quiet. There were only 2 people at the bar and we did NOT join them. Sea glass hunting was the pits at low tide – only one pretty shell offered itself.

The Pot Luck last night was not so good. Obviously the professional eaters have discovered and use and abuse the occasion. When they rang the bell to line up it had already been formed by the “professionals” and we were way back near the end. There was a lot of food offered. It looked promising until we saw little ol ladies leaving the tables with 2 and 3 plates heaping high in food. The early birds obviously loaded up on the “worms”. When we got to the table it was only vegetarian pickings. Still good but a disappointment for a meat eater. I’ll doubt we will be back.. Ohhh yes – all my deviled eggs were gone (20 of them) before we got there so we enjoyed NONE.

We ate with the crews of Born to Cruise, Celtic Cross, and Cyprea and agreed to meet on Born to Cruise tonight after dinner for a night of games – Farkle and Mexican train Dominoes and maybe some other games

Should be an enjoyable night now that the wind is dying done and will be a pleasant ride in the dinghy over there.

Ohhh the dinghy ride last night. When we first left the dinghy dock in the deep dark we only went about 20 yards and the motor quit.. Grrrr what was wrong?? Wouldn’t start then under a flashlight Karen noticed the fuel line had popped off the motor. Reconnected and we were on our way but not before Ian and Sharon came by and offered us a tow. Great folks. There were 35 boats here last night and it was DARK when we came back from the Pot No Luck. I was worried about trying to find Temptation then Karen noticed a catamaran all lit up like an airport runway – Born to Cruise. We knew where we were then. Successful find.