Day 13--Billy's in town!!

Today marks a special day for Newport.   Bill Clinton came to town stumping for Hillary.  Guess where we were?  Doing laundry and mounting the new tv to the wall of Zephyr.  What did you think?? That we would take time out of our day to go see him?   He was in the parking lot of the marina!!!   Hundreds of people showed up to see him.  Lots of cars.  We stayed out of it.  Now if Monica had showed up, that would have been a different matter :-).  We now have clean clothes and Zephyr is looking a lot more organized.

Called a fiberglass repairman to fix the tank for the head.  Left a message on his recorder.  No call back today--gee what a surprise!  Hope we hear back tomorrow.  Called the engine mechanic today.  The office secretary called back after talking to him.  He's busy with another job but might be able to get to us some time on Thursday.  Oh--I just fell off the turnip truck too.  The electrician has never called us back.  I'll try him tomorrow. 

Forgot to tell you about the adventures of "Blue the Wonder Cat"!!  Yesterday while we were working in the "garage", we look up and there was Blue staring over the dingy at us.  We don't have clue as to how she got out of the boat, but get out she did.  She wondered around the deck without a seeming care in the world at least until a big bird made a noise and then she scurried her furry butt down the stairs.  She was out again today.  At least this time, the door was open.  Snowshoe also wandered out.  So far no problems.  We just watch them for now just to make sure they don't do anything stupid.

I'll be ordering some things tomorrow from one of the boating companies.  This being a fishing town, there is not a lot of sailer supplies here.  Beats driving all the way to Portland.  May take a few days to get here, but it takes that long to get any workman to work on boats too.  

The weather here is supposed to improve over the rest of the week.  May hit the 90's by the weekend.  I'll settle for a nice sunny day.  If it gets nice enough, I'm heading up the mast.  Lots of work to do there.  Install halyards(they raise the sails) for the spinnaker and the staysail.  Plus I'm putting on the inner forestay.  When I checked in the "garage", I found a nice steel plate holding down the fastener for the inner forestay.  From what I had been told by other owners, no Liberty was built with the backing plate there, so one of the owners must have had it installed.  At least I don't have to have one made.