Day 207 Trying to get out again.

We spent yesterday battening down the hatches so to speak in an effort to try and make us ready to take off again today.

  

The day started with another trip back to Silverdale as one of the items we bought was found to be broken upon unboxing it.  That shot 2+ hours.

Upon our return, we fired up the engine and took off for Port Townsends fuel dock for a fill up.  We hadn't filled up since we got here back in lat July and boy am I glad.  The cost was a whole lot less than when we got here.  We took 126 gallons at $2.91 plus sales tax.  While not cheap, it is better than the $5.00 they were charging back then.  We pumped out the heads tanks and motored back the 1.1 miles to Point Hudson.

Off to Safeway(what a mad house) for more provisions as we hope to be out for a week this time.  We bought a Turkey for Thanksgiving and had them cut it in half.  The oven could not hold an entire turkey and there is no way the two of us could eat it.  So half will get cooked and the other will get put way down in the refrigerator/freezer where it gets the coldest for a later date.  I shrink bagged the steaks we had bought earlier as well as the second half of the turkey while Tracy pulled everything out of the refrigerator. With it being a top loader, there is no easy way to get to the bottom of it other than to pull everything out and repack it.  

I hauled out trash and a few things that will get stored in the car while we are gone and put everything back under the stern bunk down in the bilge that we had yanked out for the DuoGen installation and cleaned up and fastened down as well as charged up all the battery driven gear that we use on passage.  Everything from  radios to computers to drills, they needed to be checked and charged.

Today, we will be filling the water tanks as we ran out of time yesterday, finish the battening down and take off.  With luck, we will be out by 10am.  Back to Hunter Bay for a night and then on to other islands and coves to see what is out there.  The weather is supposed to be nice though light winds so we will see how much sailing versus motoring we will be doing.

But first, off to the showers.  We need to start out clean at least.

More to come.