Happy dance! The windlass motor arrived yesterday. May 10. Our cel-phone purgatory of the Fiddler’s Cove Marina is about to be over! Today I’m finishing up painting the sides of the bowsprit so David cannot install the windlass motor until tomorrow. Big day tomorrow. We should be able to leave San Diego if it tests good. We’ve promised a friend that we will attend an event on Thursday evening. The plan is to tidy up all the little projects between now and Thursday, do the event, sail up to La Playa for a weekend of anchoring and then leave the harbor Monday morning, May 20th. A full 5 weeks after we thought we’d be leaving. Just glad to be able to go.

We purchased a winch chuck for our V28 angle drill and that was going to be our “back up” windlass if the motor didn’t arrive before next Friday. So glad it did though. Happy sigh.

The boat’s a mess with things strewn all over the place–seems to happen when we’re in a slip for more than a few days. Today is the Navy Yacht Club San Diego general membership meeting and there we’ll be picking up a new burgee (our old one is pretty pitiful) and paying up our dues for the upcoming year. After the meeting, David is hitching a ride with a friend to visit Fryes to pick up a new scanner/printer for the boat. Our old one can print from our computers, but now that I’ve updated my computer and have Windows 8, we have no drivers for the scanner to work on our computers and expect none are forthcoming from Kodak, the printer manufacturer. Fingers crossed that the new one works as advertised since I’m getting a backlog of scanning to do.