We woke up this morning with in anticipation of some good sailing, however maintenance comes first. After breakfast, Bill and I worked on a solution to the rebooting GPS. We still are having issues, but we feel like we are close, and have something new to try in the morning.
It was a bit chilly and overcast when we started the day, but the Sun came out and warmed things up for us. We were joined by Matt, and although we got a late start, it was a great day for a sail! We had a quick stop at the fuel dock and then spent an enjoyable afternoon sailing around Charleston Harbor.
The adventure of the day was when we discovered we were out of rum (time flies when you're having rum!). All was not lost though. We knew that we would be anchoring around the Stono River, and that we had to sail right past Bob's backyard. So naturally we called Ronda. The plan was to heave a line to her, and have her attach a full bottle of rum in a bag to the line, and we would reel in the rum. We had interrupted her football game, and it took a good ten minutes to convince her that we weren't drunk, and we actually wanted her to do this. We did get it done, and Ronda was clever enough to think of what we had not, and that was to put the rum bottle into something that would float. A few tries with the heaving line and we had our bottle (see Bob below holding the prize) . Sadly, we are almost out again and may have to repeat the exercise tomorrow.
We dropped our hook just before 5:30, and got the grill set up to cook some awesome inch and a half thick steaks acquired by Bob. We entertained ourselves at dinner by selected readings from the The Art of Coarse Sailing, which we read aloud to each other.
It is expected to be cold tonight, but we have rum and hot cider to warm us, and we anticipate some nice sailing tomorrow.
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