Wednesday August 30, 2017

It was a lovely morning in the Bay, no fog. When we started up Tribune Channel though, the wind steadily increased which was very surprising. Of course the forecast said 5 to 15 and we did see a solid 15 and a few spots that snuck up to 20. EG saw even more. It was a little bumpy but not too bad though and as always, as we turned the corner into Kwatsi Bay, it all disappeared.

We had not seen Anca at all this year and so we wanted to go back for one more day. When we arrived, Dwayne and Lynn on Emerald Star were there as well as the regulars from before, Ulf and Beau-Dinky III. Sue declared that it was a "Lox and Bagels" lunch day and so who were we to argue.

Greg and Byron spent some time in the engine room trying to diagnose why Byron's tachometers would be intermittently going out while he travels. It seems random and no amount of turning more things on seems to make a difference. On this particular trip, there were "off" for the longest time so far. Greg came up with several theories and they did some digging and investigation and all theories were discarded. They did find a suspect fuse and replaced it though.

There was an impromptu pre-happy hour happy hour which Bella and I joined. When we arrived, Max said he was expecting 1 more boat. Over the course of the afternoon, 3 more boats arrived (Cuckoo's Nest, Cur-Ric III, Rendezvous), and then during happy hour and a huge rain pour, another arrived (Santana), and then at the end of happy hour and another huge rain pour, 2 smaller boats arrived and had to raft. They were completely filled up with boats!

Provisions on Spellbound are getting mighty light. Greg had the brilliant idea of bringing popcorn to happy hour. We haven't seem popcorn at a happy hour yet and thought it would be unique. We have the hot air popper on board and have some special "Dakota Dark" black popcorn and also normal popcorn with us. So we did a bowl of "fancy" popcorn with Kelp Sea Salt, and another bowl of good old regular. We arrived at happy hour with our bowls, and wouldn't you know it, *2* more boats arrived with popcorn as their contribution! We met many of the people on the newly arrived boats and had a great evening snacking on a lot of popcorn while it rained outside. And watched Anca and Max move their boats around so that they could fit more in.

Dinner on EG where Sue made a great pasta salad. It's really dark at night here - we needed our flashlight to get back to our boat which was right next door.