Day 268 Back to Point Hudson

We headed back to Port Townsend to pick up some special orders and mail that came into Sea Marine over the past two days.  OK, this post is in blue and underlined.  That's strange.  I wonder why?

An easy drive up after our showers this morning.  Sure feels nice to be clean.  Amazing what you take for granted when you have a nice shower stall close by in your home.

We stopped in for a quick lunch at Sea J's on the way into town.  A great bacon burger.  Of course, I had them add jalapenos and sprinkled it with a nice covering of Habenero Tabasco Sauce.  Now I didn't know it was the Habenero type until after I had put it on, but by then I was committed.  Sure went down easy--spicy but real easy.

Then off to Sea Marine.  They had our new inlet for the electrical on Zephyr as well as our new 50 foot yellow cord.  Here's pictures of the old ones-- 

Tracy decided to install it herself after we got back to Zephyr.  It took a few minutes and some wire cutting as one of the wires had melted inside the old fitting. Now, at least we won't have anymore fried wires coming into our new home.  We've had more than our share of fried electrical wires.  We have two cords that both look like this one.  I can buy new ends and install them to give us backup cords for future needs.  They also make new insides for the inlet for the electrical plug that funnels the power into Zephyr.  I'll get a set of the new guts for the inlet and install it as time allows.  You can't have too many backups on a boat.  The average life expectancy of these things on boats is only about 5 years before salt water corrosion take over and they die like these have.

Here's another picture of one of our neighbors--a boat cop!!  He's two slips down from us.

The repair slide came in so we can clean out the track of our Strong Track.  This is a long piece of a special plastic that gets installed into the track that your mainsail normally goes up the mast in.  Instead of using the track or channel in the mast, it goes up in the Strong Track.  It's supposed to be absolutely great.  It makes raising your main sail a piece of cake.  Ours had always bound up going up to the mast head.  Strong Track sent me this gizmo to run up and down the track to clean anything out that may be causing the trouble.  Now all we have to do is take all the existing main sail slides out of the track and run this gizmo up and down it.  We sure hope it works and straightens out our problem.  It would be nice to not have to grunt and groan getting our sail up. 

Tomorrow, we're off to the Seattle Boat Show.  Tracy has two classes--one at 9:00 and the second at 4:00.  I can't get in till noon so I have the morning to kill sitting in a hotels lobby across the street.  Oh Well.