Newport, and nowhere else

We were asleep last night by 8:30 pm. At 9:15 pm I woke to the noise of the Coast Guard rescue boat filling up.

We woke again at 4 am. Or rather, the alarm went off at 4. A moment later I opened one eye as I heard Jim coming to our end of the boat. 

"Weather has deteriorated; do you mind if we go back to sleep and wait it out?"

"No Jim", I mumbled. "We don't mind." And so we all went back to sleep. 

A few hours later we crawled out of bed, had a hot cup of tea and put our feet up. 

We watched a few boats refuel, including this forty-footer that came in after an all nighter from Crescent City. The two guys on board were whupped - they looked like we did yesterday. 

Of course today we are fairly clean, moderately rested and very happy, with stomachs full of a bacon, French toast and freshly-made blueberry syrup breakfast. 

So today we wait for the wind and the waves to settle down. Maybe we'll go fishing ... although our shore crew insists we could stand to do some washing up!

So of course instead we went out in the car and Jim showed us how a K-Mart shopper buys a crab trap and all the fixin's. 

We threw the trap into the water, took naps, strolled over to the Maritime Center and looked at fish and whale theory and research. 

On the way home we saw the practice to go with the theory, as a world-champion fish filet-er took care of a bunch of Black Sea bass and some salmon. 

We fixed our autopilot, then had a gourmet lunch on the flying bridge. 

We took another nap, and checked the crab pot. No keepers! Drat. 

Although it's warm(ish) and sunny, the wInd is now 12-16 gusting to 24 and forecast to 35+ tonight. 

We cruised the bay, testing the autopilot. It works!

We will wait to see what happens with the weather... while waiting we discovered it was National Tequila Day. So we celebrated. 

We dug into our reserve stock and pulled out a lovely piece of salmon, which accompanied a plate of pasta with avocado cream sauce.  

We finally found a legal crab in our trap.  

So instead of going to bed we cooked him. 

And then we went to bed.