A bright, clear, beautiful, cold, windy day. We walked across the street and made the arrangements to rent a slip for a week. They only had one slip available, so we were lucky to get it. However, with the wind blowing the way it is, we might not be able to get into it today, so Jay Jay showed us a mooring we could tie to until the wind dies down.
Ate lunch, turned in the keys at Pope's Island Marina, and waited a while, hoping the wind would die down, but it kept gusting around 20 knots. Since we'd gone into the slip bow first, we had a lot of fun getting out. Roy tied long lines to the stern and the bow. He let out the stern a few feet at a time and pulled in the bow. Eventually, the Jofian was crosswise to the slip. Fortunately, there was no one next to us, and it was a wide, double slip. Then he used the stern throw line to pull the stern around with the bow out. The maneuver went flawlessly, and we were soon out of the slip.
We had to go through the bascule bridge, which opens at quarter past the hour. We had just missed the 2:15 opening by five minutes, so we had to hang around in the harbor until 3:15.
When we finally got through the bridge, Roy tested the wind near the marina and decided it would be folly to try to go in, so we took the boat around the point to the mooring buoy. There's another California ketch not far from us.
Roy lowered his Royak and went paddling in the cold wind, but I opted to stay on the boat and work on the log. Roy chatted with the woman on the California boat for a while and then went in to town and walked around. He found a store that sells generators and has a really good one on sale for $425. Our old one is falling apart, so he's considering buying the new one.
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