Day 131 Classes

We spent quite a bit of time yesterday at classes at the Wooden Boat Festival.  Some good and some not so good.  The best was a class on sail making by Carol Hasse.  She's been making sails here in Port Townsend for the past 30 years.  A great talk about what to look for in a sail and how they should be made especially if you are going out for long distance cruising.  They require a much heavier sail than inland sails.  We had her company inspect ours and they came out just fine.  Not quite up to blue water strength but her people recommended was a few more line of stitching and a bit of re-enforcement to the corners.  With all the money going to Sea Marine, we told her to just leave them alone.  We have a Sailrite sewing machine on board and can make most of the suggested re-enforcements ourselves.

One teacher didn't show up.  Another primarily talked about the autopilots he makes and sells.  Like I said, some good and some bad.

Other than that, we walked around and looked at booths and I had more pork fried rice--lunch and dinner. 

The bands continued till midnight again.  We're sure glad we were in a well insulated boat and up wind.  The sound didn't carry as bad.

We have two more classes today and I hope to get the bilge finally cleaned out.  Not a pleasant job which is one reason I have been putting it off for so long.  I expect we will also be going into Safeway for more provisions some time this afternoon.  We bought another bus pass for the month of September.  We figure we will certainly be here long enough to use it.

The weather has been beautiful the past few days.  Nice and sunny and pleasant temperatures.   The festival got lucky as several of the past weekends have had lots of rain.  

Other than that, not much has been happening.  Have a great day everybody!!