September 1

We sleep 11 hours, then Mocha's for breakfast, and get going on the cleanup. Batteries charging, laundry going, get caught up on banking and business end of month. We wash a month's worth of salt off of everything. It's obvious we're not going to be done with all we have to do today, so we choose to spend another night. Slip fees here are about half what they are in Washington. Our deep locker has mold growing in it, so we haul everything out (including the boat batteries) and get it washed down and dried out. Haul off recycling (haven't been able to get rid of anything but paper since Friday Harbor). I walk up to the fish market for fresh albacore tuna for dinner (honey ginger glazed, with rice). I've resigned myself to that being the best way to fish on this boat. We get showers, they're free here.

We met another couple, on a bigger boat, who chose to go 60 miles off shore because they heard of better conditions. They were hit with 30kt winds and 20” seas, their wind vane steering broke, she was sea sick, so he ended up hand steering the whole trip. At one point he was making 8kts under staysail and reefed main. Put a tear in his main sail. Their cat was also not impressed. We were glad we'd chosen to stay closer in.