Neah Bay Day 9

After a look at the latest weather information it looks like there may be a problem on Sunday, so we are still in wait-and-see mode.

This morning I spoke to the skipper of a ketch that was brought in by the Coast Guard yesterday. He had a hard time coming up from Oregon with high winds and strong seas. He blew out his jib to smithereens and I saw him dump it into the bin just before I spoke with him. Then his diesel stopped due to dirty diesel and he called the CG for help, though I'm not sure how close to Neah Bay he was able to sail. He thinks that next Monday looks like a better day for departure and I must say that the latest 96 hour fax makes Monday look very, very good, with a High practically on top of us and strong NE winds. Today we observed lots of spray from the swell crashing into the barrier spit on the other side of the bay, and there is a lot of thick foam in the marina; so we know that it has been rough out there. Anyway, our friend's diesel is running now and he plans to leave today, possibly towing a second ketch that arrived yesterday with diesel injector problems.

Early this morning we executed a plan that I had proposed two days ago. Taking the opportunity of practically no wind I backed the boat out of C39, motored toward the marina office, and backed into C15. This has given us two advantages: (1) It has almost halved the distance to the marina office, which should avoid those intermittent problems that we've been experiencing with the WiFi, (2) The boat is now berthed bow-out making our exit much easier in a wider variety of winds.

We have tenure here at the marina until mid-November. It turns out that after nine days it is cheaper to book for an entire month than to stay on a daily basis. I found the monthly rate very reasonable: $281 for the slip including electricity. I make that to be less than $10 per day - cheaper than even Honolulu.