Sunday, March 11, 2012 Thompson Bay, Long Island

Daylight Savings starts today! We spent a lazy day aboard the boat. I fixed a few teak fittings that had either broken off (handle to locker) or come loose (nav-station peg), and reattached the foam pieces that help insulate the icebox top. Then I checked out the charts and read some more of Bruce Van Sant’s Passages South book. Patience, patience, patience…The weather just isn’t cooperating for us this year with all these strong fronts that keep coming through. Hopefully Chris Parker’s weather report tomorrow morning will give us some good news other than 20-25 out of the ENE or NE or E…

Wayne read and did some Suduko puzzles.

I made some brownies and took some items for salad over to Azaya’s for dinner. It was salad fest for dinner. Quite yummy! Romaine, tomatoes, carrots, garbonzo beans, artichoke hearts, eggs, turkey breast, olives, beets, tangerine, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, and I’m sure I’m forgetting a few other items, but quite a treat and then brownies with walnuts to finish it all off! As we sat around chatting after dinner, some heavy-duty clouds started rolling over the island and we could see the rain pouring down. It looked like it was to the south of our boats, then more clouds started building covering the island so we decided it was time to scurry back to the boat. The winds started kicking up again and I thought we were in for it for sure! The rain did miss us, but the winds are steadily picking up and making our boat dance around on its anchor and chain.