Day 504 Leave eve.

The mechanic showed up just after 1100 and took the Aqua Drive apart.  He found no real problems but put in a lot more grease and sealed up the unit so it won't spew grease any more.  It was a relief to find it alright.  That was the last thing that we had planned to have fixed/ repaired while we were here so we will be off tomorrow morning about 1000.

We have to set our times on slack tide at the Golden Gate so we aren't fighting the incoming tide and since that is about 1230, we want to allow ourselves plenty of time to get there.  With luck, we will be sailing under the bridge and maybe get a chance to actually see it.  We'll stop for the night at Half Moon Bay just south of San Francisco and drop the hook.  It will be nice to be back out on the water again.   It's been great here in Alameda being with Matt and Kayobi(son & fiance) but tough on our waistlines.  We will be back on our diets and get what we have gained while being here back off.  I'm sure I have put on 10 pounds(and happily doing so).  The food in the restaurants Matt & Kayobi have taken us to has been wonderful.  Lots of different tastes for the pallet.

We stowed more stuff in the afternoon and filled the water tanks.   We're now a good 4 inches lower in the water as the tanks were only about half full.  That's not bad since we last filled them in Port Townsend, WA over a month ago.  It's not hard to conserve water once you get in the habit of doing it.  You never leave a faucet on while you are at the sink and the shower gets turned off between the initial soaking and the final rinse.

I re-seized the anchor to the anchor chain fitting again just to make sure it is not going to come loose at the wrong time.   The laundry got done late in the afternoon so we are all set to go.

Matt and Kayobi came over for a nice dinner and we were off to bed. 

Tomorrow--back out on the water again.