Glorious, glorious day! Warm, but with a good breeze to keep it from getting too hot. Blue sky and water, green grass and trees--such a beautiful place! Everything would be perfect if it weren't for these stupid colds. Roy isn't completely over his, and mine is worse.
Nevertheless, we got a lot done. Roy bought a new pump for the chain washer and got it partly installed. I wrote another letter to Chodar, who owned the Jofian before Stoner, got the charts and GPS ready for our trip to Ensenada, rode my bike to Von's and bought a few groceries. We walked over to the Kona Kai Yacht Club to see if we could stay at their guest dock, but it was full. Then we went down to Silver Gate. They'll have an opening in the morning, so we'll move then.
Later, we went back to Kona Kai to see the three Russian boats that are tied up there. They're replicas of boats used by Bering and other early explorers. But they have engines, radar, GPS, etc. Even so, we wondered how they got this far. They're made of cheap lumber, nails, and rusty iron. They have a very low center freeboard. They're 50 feet long but don't have keels and only draw 4 feet. Looks as if they'd founder in the first storm.
The boats are named St. Peter, St. Paul, and St. Gabriel. Each boat has a carved figurehead of her namesake, backed by a rather large cross. The boats are painted red, green, and blue. The Russians are planning on sailing all over the world on a mission of peace and friendship. They'll visit 153 countries. The club was having a reception and dinner for them tonight, but we just looked at the boats and went back to the Jofian.
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