cricket has this cool little device as part of her electronic gizmo colection called "anchor watch." this nifty little feature allows you to sleep better because it will set off an alarm when your boat starts to drift when it's supposed to be anchored to whatever stuff makes up the bottom of the sea under your boat. around here the bottom under our boat is most often slick, silty mud. this is bad and good. not so good to hold a heavy boat that really wants to drift in the wind, but good because if you do go aground, it's softer than a babies butt, however, harder to get off of (i'm not 100% sure this is true, since i've never been stuck on a babies butt, but i have seen some stuff come from them that looks alot like the stuff that drips off our chain and anchor when we heave it up!). anyway... last night around 3am our anchor watch alarm woke pam and i up. we popped out of bed and got out on deck in a flash, expecting to find cricket drifting across the little inlet on a collision course with the most expensive boat she could find. we found no such thing. all we saw were the stars shining sweetly upon a shore that was staying right there where it was supposed to be. standing out there reminded me of the fire drills we'd have every now and then at school. like you'd be out there saying, "there's mr. ben's class, and there's mrs. pam's class, but where's mr jerry's class?" guess he knew it was just a drill, and had more important things to do in his classroom. mrs. pam and i went back to our classroom and did more important things too.
we had another wonderful sail today. we headed back to herrington harbor because we're meeting with some friends of papa jerry's tomorrow, and that is where p.j.'s borrowed car is located. we started out tacking here and there to avoid this and that, and did all this tacking like regular sailors! pretty soon we won't have to season our own finger food, we're getting so salty! we had a long time when the wind died to a dead calm, and we sat out there in the middle of the bay for hours waiting for a breeze. i loved that! i'd sit in the shade of a sail and read, or blog, or daydream, bird and boat watch, or look up at the clouds. there was no hurry. nowhere we had to be. and it's hard to run into anything when you're not moving! wonderful!
...we eventually motored to the marina, and (yippee!) pam did a fantastic job of docking the boat! great way to end a great day!
o. and a shower too.
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