Port Townsnend, the economy still sux

48*06.7N, 122*45.3W  Water temperature is 50*F.
The water in PT is 4 degrees colder than it was when we left Edmonds. I guess we aren't in the tropcs yet.

We took the dink in for a walk around PT. Passed by the locals' bar we used to grab a beer at when we are in town and there was an eviction notice from sheriff on the door.

Here's the schedule for the Water Street Brewery. Maybe the busniess hours contributed to the demise.

We walked down to Point Hudson harbor and saw they had torn down the breakfast joint there.Bad economy or not, PT is a cool town with a lot of local flavor and wooden boat history. The new Northwest Maritime center is really nice. PT is worth the drive up if you are ever in Pacific Northwet

Paul

One show and Goodbye

We made it out of Edmonds at 8:30 this morning. Here's the empty slip to prove it.

 If you look at the mast head on the boat in the picture above that is mid-right of our empty slip, you can just see the bald eagle who was rushing us out. Here's the close up.

We had a great sail today. Light southerly winds blowing us up to Port Townsend. With the strong current with us and the help of our asymmetric spinnaker we made it in by about 2:30pm.

Paul

Here's your hat, What's your hurry?

My sister Liz and old friend Steve put together a little going away party last weekend. Fun to see old friends and have them help us out the door.

Our nephew Kevin went to town in the cooking department. Not much left over.

Now the process is to get the boat packed, get the refrigeration working again and make sure the batteries are batting correctly. Here's the cockpit mess left over after we spent 10 hours organizing and packing the large cockpit locker.

I turned the comments on the Blog on so my Aussie mate Graeme could publicly harass us.

My friend Steve from Caveman Bars dropped by the boat yesterday to give us a couple of boxes of Chris' favorite snack bar.

http://www.cavemanbar.com/index.html

When are you leaving?  We are still on schedule to leave a few days ago.




Paul