This morning Gerry’s first chore was emptying water from the dinghy. Our mooring mates, Second Star, also had the same issue, even though there’s had a cover on it. Rain was predicted for most of the morning and it was very windy, so we decided to stay put today. It ended up being one of those “couch potato days”. Gerry worked on a schedule for us through summer of 2011 (gee, wonder how many times that will change) and Linda read a book Jana had loaned her, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. She just couldn’t put it down until she finished reading it (recommend it to anyone, but especially anyone female).
By late afternoon the sky had cleared and we had a beautiful, but still breezy, day. Gerry grilled the salmon we had picked up at the fish market on Saturday. Because of the wind, he had a hard time lighting the grill, but he persevered and soon we had delicious salmon for dinner.
We went to bed with the boats rocking a bit as it was still very windy, but no rain. The temperature is supposed to drop into the 40’s tonight. Where’s spring??
This morning Linda noted a stream of water coming off the boat ... oh no, what was Gerry doing? After all, we were in a mooring field with lots of other boats.
OH ..... thank goodness, it was the hose draining the water from the dinghy. She was afraid the source was from SOMEONE else.
In case you've never rafted up with another boat, this is what it looks like between the two boats ... lots and lots of fenders so the two boats don't rub together and damage the fiberglass. It can get kind of noisy though if there is a lot of wind or wave/wake action.
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Sound travels 1/5 of a mile per second. So five seconds to a mile -- and remember, if the lightening is up in the clouds, a strike directly overhead at 5,000 feet will take five seconds, too.
Wow, way to scientific for me. Suffice it to say ... the lighting was close.
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