Sunday July 29, 2007

We have arrived safely in Alpena, an uneventful trip where we attempted to solve a few problems of the world. Albion was well taken care of but covered with hundreds of spiders and their feces, we destroyed their villages with a good washing. The marina folk were to replace a mast head anchor bulb. A rather minor job but they told me on the phone they had to rewire things. Well, we have an anchor light but they seem to not understand the difference in a masthead light and anchor light. We lost the masthead light in the process, and I doubt now this rewiring is what we needed. A story and project for later. Ohhh well we have an anchor light and have no plans to be running at night..

We had a nice dinner in an old restaurant that matches the sailors rule I met last trip. IF the restaurant is not in a 100 year old building, it just won’t be very good. This one was good! That rule has worked so far, I wonder where that sailor is about now. We are stocked with food for a few days and will be traveling to Presque Isle tomorrow…

The Winds are East tonight at 10 knots, not bad as we are heading North tomorrow. The seas are calm. The fishermen had some good catches today. We saw a large Steelhead, and walleye about to be filleted. I think Mark said they were 2 feet…

A large huge orange moon came up in the East soon after sunset. The neighbor guy with long gray hair under his cap said, wow, ain’t it just wonderful! Yea, it really is…..Nice to be back on board. I like harbors, boats, and boat people.

I’ll try and send a few pictures once in a while, just to give you, well, a picture of things. Our challenge will be finding a place to connect and send. So expect days of nothing and then bursts of email…