August 7

Port Townsend, WA. Laundry and Showers. A cool little marine exchange store to get a spare fuel hose, map dividers, and a third hand dingy pump. Too bad the little outboard has a seized piston, would have been great for the dingy. West Marine for the head rebuild kit and some other parts. "123 Thai" has really good take away (you have to try their "fresh roll" with peanut sauce). The taco stand, not so good. We were able to get a crab "catcher" at the hardware store, not quite what Doug was after but it will allow us to revert the fish net back into a "cat scoop" in case Squishy goes overboard. So far, she's showing very little interest in going outside. And we can get everything recycled (except cardboard). It's noisy here, boats in and out and a guy across the way's been hammering on his boat all day. It takes us most of the day to get the head repaired. Doug has a software upgrade to do for a client tomorrow afternoon, we plan on anchoring out to do that.

The dingy had managed to take on many gallons of water. Still investigating where that came from, it might have been a wave that pooped the dink and sent the crab trap overboard, too. The (not) new dingy pump made short work of that, and I re-inflate the keel. Rides better now, but still checking in case of a leak.