Day 143 The lazy, hazy, crazy days of Summer are gone!

Well, it appears that the lazy, hazy. crazy days of Summer are gone here in Port Townsend.  There is a definite slow down in the daily traffic and pace of the town.  They will be eliminating some of the bus trips come early next month and many of the stores here are having clearance sales getting rid of the goods they brought in for the tourists.  The last few days have been overcast and quite chilly.  It's just letting us know what to expect through the Winter as we sail through the islands.  The Sun has got to be up there some where, it is just hiding.

To pass the boredom of yesterday, we took a bus trip to Poulsbo.  Saw lots of green hills and sleepy villages was well as quite a few boats at anchor and in a few small marinas along the way.  We got off the bus and toured the shopping center that is next to the bus stop for half an hour and got right back on the bus to come back to Port Townsend.   Same bus, same driver.  A nice trip to see some of the peninsula.  

No workmen came to Zephyr yesterday.  Well, Troy--new electrician-- did to see how things were progressing and if there were any other problems or things we wanted to add to the list.  In and out and gone.  With Jack out for a few days, Zephyr has come to  a halt.  The riggers are still in class with the Coasties so they won't be by till Monday at the earliest.

I spent a great deal of yesterday surfing the internet at the ice cream parlor--twice and Safeway once.  I ordered a new "chip" of charts for our chartplotter.  They will give us all the info we need for the area around Port Townsend.  Bill--previous owner--had already bought a "chip" for the areas just North of here-farther up the islands.  Now we will be set for any cruising we want to do locally.  I also have some "chips" to give us the charts for farther North, but will have to get paper charts to see what areas they cover.   I also ordered the updates for our Garmin gps unit that sits in the cockpit and helps guide me with its charts.  The rest for the time was spent calling suppliers and ordering some parts and checking on earlier orders. 

Since it appears that we will be here for a while, I ordered the connector for our Raytheon VHF radio so I can turn it into a fog horn when necessary,  which up here is a great deal of the time.  Now, I'll have to see what kind of a horn I can find as the Raymarine horn is out of stock.  We want to make sure that any boats around us can hear us as we pass by in the mist.

And that is about all that went on yesterday.  Tracy spent most of the morning stitching and relaxing.  She is off to the doctor today to get looked at and see if he can fix her up.  She is still quite stiff.  God bless Motrin.