We headed into town today. Well, it didn't start out that way. We went in to use the phone since cell coverage isn't great here. It fluctuates between moderate signal and no service, and seems to prefer no service! We headed to Fishing Bay Harbor Marina. They have no landing fee, and they have free loaner bikes. We originally were going to go to the cafe there, but it is only open on the weekends so the dock master suggested we take the bikes into town. So after we made phone calls, we biked into town (about 2 miles or so). Mike doesn't think it was 2 miles.
We stopped at West Marine for wire and oil absorb pads, then headed over to Sal's for lunch. I had a fish sub and Mike had a small Pizza (it was 14"!) and we split an order of garlic cheese bread. After we ordered the food, I walked over to the store and picked up taco seasoning.
After lunch, we biked back to the Fishing Bay Harbor Marina, dropped the bikes off, bought ice cream and headed for the boat.
After recovering, we put the dinghy back on deck since we are planning to head out tomorrow.
After that, I decided I wanted to work on stainless, and Mike decided he wanted to help me. We each took one of the chocks on the bow, a furling housing and a stanchion. While I worked on the anchor chain strike plate, Mike did the backing plates for the bow sprit.
Mike called it quits, and I came along after finishing what I was doing. We were cooling down when I saw the brass on the inside ship's wheel. I decided to see how the metal polish works on that. It isn't nearly as good as it is on stainless!
Mike decided to run the 12 volt antenna power and we spent the rest of the afternoon doing that. We can now watch TV with a powered signal amplifier for our antenna with the generator off. Mike is thrilled. He really likes to watch Judge Judy!
On June 22, we hung out since they were forecasting storms just north of us. We stayed put keeping an eye out for anything that might head our way. Nothing ever did materialize so we had a nice quiet relaxing day.