Day 257 More rain and fog--gee what a surprise.

More rain and fog yesterday and today.  We're pretty well socked in.  Tracy and I had talked a while ago about adding a fog horn to our inventory of electronics on board Zephyr.  I'd already bought the connector for our Raytheon VHF(it has an automatic fog horn feature) all I needed was a horn of some type.  Well, a few weeks ago, behind Sea Marine in their "free" bin--old stuff people no longer wanted--was a horn.  With all the fog that happens around here, I guess it is time to install it.  All I need now is a long set of wires and a small soldering iron to make the connections.  Neither should be too hard to get.  We are off to Sequim today anyway so I will pick up the soldering iron there and get the wires from Sea Marine.

While I'm doing this set up, I can also attach wires from our GPS to the same connector on the VHF so that if I ever have to push the distress call button on the radio, it will transmit our longitude and latitude to who ever is listening.  A nice little feature.  Amazing what you can learn what something will do by simply reading the owners manual.  Not really that important as if we're in that much trouble, I will deploy my EPIRB (emergency position reporting beacon).  It transmits our exact coordinates to the USCG and any ships or airline jets any where with in hundreds of miles. 

It's still calm 24 hours later.  Of course it is still raining--well sort of a mist really but you will still get soaked if you stay out in it for long.

Tracy sat and stitched most of yesterday while I read more manuals and magazines to try and get rid of more of them.  I've collected quite a lot as other boaters tend to leave them in the laundry room after they are done with them.  

We took a walk in the mist late in the afternoon just to get some exercise.  On Saturday, we walked all the way through town.  Amazingly, we've been here for 5+ months and have never walked and window shopped through Port Townsend.  We've driven through and been bussed through but never took the time to just walk through town.  We'd been told many nice things about Port Townsend before we got here and they have proven to be correct. It's a nice town with great, friendly people.

Off for another road trip today.  Oh Boy!

About the Eco Sphere I wrote about yesterday, we stored it on a shelf back in the stern cabin near a port light with lots of towels around it during the trip here.  It was nice and safe and still had the sunshine it needed to continue to produce the algae the little shrimp need to live.  We wanted to make sure it didn't get broken.  Of course, when we stowed it there, we had no idea we would face what we did on the trip up here from Newport, Oregon.  It goes back there every time we head out from the marina.

Have a great day everyone.