A Calm Day

Yesterday we had the calmest conditions we have seen for quite a while. We started our day by doing laundry at Baranki Wash. Our timing was great—we arrived around 8:30, at the tail end of the early morning rush. Next we drove around and visited a few other boats we knew in the anchorage. In the afternoon we took the dinghy over to Cheater’s Restaurant and had a late lunch with Jean and Michael from Desiderata II and Ron and Dee from Ursa Minor. The menu was limited but we all enjoyed our fried chicken or fried fish with French fries. It was fun to be able socialize on the restaurant’s porch and we stayed long after the restaurant closed in the afternoon. George and I must have been lucky with the tides when we made our two previous trips that way. The chart shows that it is quite shallow but we never had a problem. On our way to Cheater’s we hit bottom going very slowly. Rather than risk damaging the prop, George pulled out an oar, stood up, and rowed us to deeper water. I felt like I was in a gondola. Fortunately, Michael knew another path through deeper water by Brown’s Marine. We followed him to Cheater’s and then followed Ursa Minor back to our anchorage.

Today it is windy and choppy again so we have stayed on the boat. We tackled the dreaded job of getting food out from under the aft berth. It is quite a production to get to that storage area and we hope we won’t have to do it again until after we return home. In addition, I made coffee cake while George added another layer to the insulation we put on top of the fridge. We have been wanting to do this for weeks but the extra insulation was also under the aft berth.