Went over expenses and found almost $4000 in provisions, meals, parts, fuel, and moorage. This was getting concerning in addition to the extra time this was taking so I called the owner and caught up on payment. It is always hard when people relatively new to boating buy a boat and have a budget in mind and things cost more then what they allocated for it. To make it worse in cases like this; all before they have had the opportunity to enjoy the boat. One good thing that was coming out of all this tribulation was that Har Rai was beginning to doubt the prospect of boat ownership. He had hired me prior to this trip to look at some boats with him and was posed to buy a boat to take his family out and share his love of sailing on. We did a test sail on a sweet little J28 and he was having a survey done while we were on this trip. Rick from Salty Boys Boat works who replaced the transmission in Port Townsend said he was doing a mechanical survey in the same marina as the J28 and offered to take a look at it pro bono. This proved to be a blessing as he found a broken motor mount and a few other things that made the asking price too high. The sellers, it turned out, did not want to negotiate and Har Rai walked away, or dodged a bullet.

Met up with a rockstar crabber friend of mine Capt Lars and later in the day he showed this his boat just two boats down from our slip.

Lars told us about lost pots how rival crabbers steal from other people pots.

The electrician “Christian” is scheduled to return to install the alternator. The unit was purchased from Fisheries Supply in Seattle and was transported via a of Tom’s friend Mary who happened to be meeting up with her friend in Olympia and who was coming down from Everett. I guess Mary and her friend meet each other part way regularly to stay in touch. If we had it sent by Fisheries we would have lost another day at least.

It takes a village and contacts in every port is a god send.

Alternator in by 18:00 OT for Xian.