The Progress Continues

Another good but busy day. it started with an early rise, and some sewing repairs to the bimini. We seem to be developing some proficiency with Bob's Sailrite sewing machine, and repairs went pretty quickly.

Next of was developing a project list for our next major sail. In the last post, a mention was made of future goals. We spent some time last night talking about this, and we want our next big trip to be too Connecticut. Our plan is to have the Black Dog up there by the summer of 2020. The current plan is to winter out up there, and continue North the next year. So today, we started creating a project plan to ensure readiness to do this trip.

We took a break for a training session at Gritbox with Cody, and then lunch at the East Bay Deli. It was a hard choice, because there are so many great places to eat, but East Bay delivered on lunch for sure.

We spent the afternoon on the boat replacing lines, and re-furling the recently repaired jib. Then Bill and I set about working on a long standing issue, in which the chart plotter reboots when the engine is restarted. This may seem like a minor nuisance, but many times, when we are under sail and need to start the engine, there's something going on. But we think we now have handle on it. Of course to effectively correct the issue, we needed to.... wait for it.... GO TO WEST MARINE! So we now have what we need to hopefully correct this correct this troublesome issue.

After West Marine, a trip to the Gin Joint was in order. It is always a favorite spot for me, and many great voyages were planned there. It is a special bar that will let you spread your charts out at the bar.

We then met up with Ronda at a place called The Alley, for drinks and bowling with a large contingent from the Gritbox crowd to celebrate Cody's birthday.

We split a ride share with Ronda, since she was going home, and we were heading to the boat. Of course the rain picked up as we exited the car, so as Ronda pulled away in her nice dry Lyft car, we had a small dousing as we made our way to H dock and the Black Dog.