We opted for a long day, as we need to be back in Jacksonville soon. But that doesn't mean we liked it. It was S O B O R I N G. Seven hours of flat straight stretch with the auto pilot on most of the way. (We call him Clark. Some people call him Otto, or Jack).
The only diversion was when we were coming in to the dock at NSB and I dropped a fender, complete with brand new line and fender grip, overboard. I was so mad at myself, but it was too shallow to chase after the fender, and we had the narrow fairway and docking to think about.
This does have a happy ending, however. After we docked Rick dropped the dingy and we went looking. We calculated the direction of current and wind, poked around the harbor and found it! It even had the fender grip still attached - high fives all around!
Docked next to us were the Gold Loopers we had met before, and later we met the couple that will be giving the talk on the DownEast Loop in early May, at the Spring Rendezvous (Norkfolk VA). We are looking forward to that event, and meeting a lot of new people. Rick has even signed our boat up to be toured. That's what we nerdy Loopers do - we go to things names Rendezvous and Trawlerfest (yes, that's really a thing, and Rick really did go to it last spring), and we tour each others' boats. What that really means is we are going to have to spruce this boat up; and by that I mean spend more money on it...
Both of us are coming down with a cold, so we got pizza to go from Prima - Pizza Cuchina and it was a dinner and TV night. Would I love a pizza with tomato sauce and pepperoni - yes. But due to a Phantom Gallbladder, those days are behind me and it was spinach white sauce. Pretty yummy though. We are watching the HBO adaptation of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials books. I think you'd be pretty lost if you hadn't read the books, but the casting is good. The books were an incredible examination of religion and the role of the Catholic Church, hidden inside of an amazing adventure story. I'm still reading up on what I actually read..
Pix from the day:
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| This boat really tickles me - it's like a tugboat got dropped on to a sailing boat. |
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| Can you see this dolphin without visual aids? |
All my creative neurons were killed today by boredom, so....goodnight.
So no tomatoes, ever? That's all I got.
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