SD Day 2

Our second day here in San Diego turned out to be a very good one. I spent a couple of hour washing my wet weather gear and some wool garments, then while Arnold and I were carting the staysail up the ramp to the grassy area for flaking and bagging we ran into John and Priscilla who had come to see us. We had met them and their friends Jak Mang and his wife from the SF Bay area in Port Townsend. What had brought us together was our admiration of the rear ends of each other's S&S boats. John and Priscilla had just purchased Rebecca, which is still in Port Townsend because they wisely decided to wait until after winter to sail her down to San Diego.

John and Priscilla had been monitoring our progress on the blog during the difficult passage to San Diego and from their house they reckoned that they could maybe see Pachuca in her slip. Anyway, they showed up in separate vehicles and John presented the key to his Fort pickup truck and told us that he would not need it until Tuesday. How perceptive, thoughtful and extremely helpful to us! It was a wonderful gift that would change everything for us. John helped us to fold the sail then he and Priscilla paid a short visit to the boat where we described some of our experiences. John passed on a potentially very valuable suggestion to us: that the San Diego Yacht Club would probably welcome us as visiting members of the Fremantle Sailing Club and offer us reciprocal rights. The fee, if there is any, would probably be low. Arnold and I plan to pursue this.

Soon after we hit the road to explore our new surroundings. Arnold was the dirver because he is much more used to driving on the right side of the road and is fully insured with USAA. We found a Bank of America where Arnold was able to attend to his accounts. Then we found a McDonalds and got our overdue dose of junk food (quarter pounder meals with milk as the drink) which really hit the spot. After that we found a large grocery store and spent $350 on provisions for the boat. Tomorrow we'll probably visit the Laundromat and certainly visit the boat shops.

Soon after returning to the boat we learned that Noel, Jackie, and Jackie's parents Roy and Valerie will leave on Pyewacket for a stay at a marina. This put a sense of urgency on our offer to install C-Map on their computer so Arnold and I spent several hours setting up C-Map over white wine and lots of laughs. In the end Noel had charts of the entire world and could see the position of his boat from my GPS antenna that I had set up for him as a demonstration.

It was a great day and thanks to John and Priscilla, Arnold and I are confident that we'll be able to make all of our reparations for the next leg of our journey.

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