Oct 22, 2012, Monday

After last night’s rain, it is clear and calm this morning.  For whatever reasons, this anchorage is only available on the weekends so everyone is up early, getting their boats ready to move.  We have decided to move to Cabrillo Marina at Shelter Island.  It is further up the channel than we had thought but seems like a nice place.  Lots of other Haha boats are here already.
 
Over the course of the last year, whenever I was shopping I would pick up an extra one or two for the boat; soap, shampoo, lotion, floss, etc.  At one point it was all sort of organized but recently it had turned into “just stuff it in and close the door”.   Time to take everything out and reorganize.  WOW! What a bunch of stuff.  You would think we were going to be gone for 2 years.  Oh right, we are.  Well the good thing is, we won’t have to buy toiletries from here to Fiji.  Meanwhile, where to put it all. 

The first thing is to get rid of all of the packaging and then combine like items.  3 bottles of aspirin will actually all fit into one bottle.  Several hours and 2 bags of packaging trash later,  it is done.  Everything sorted, combined and organized and neatly stowed.  Remember to leave the TP accessible.  Don’t want to be taking everything out to find it while the boat is rocking wildly.  Rhapsody actually has an amazing amount of storage space, although not all of it is easy to get to.   

While I am doing this, Alan is on the phone with the radio expert, checking out our radio.  Eventually they figure out which frequencies are which and our radio is good to go.  Of course I still can’t hear anything on it but apparently that is because there is no one there, not because our radio does not work.

In the afternoon we load up the dingy and head off across the bay to this evening’s seminar.  It is a long way!  We are hoping there is someplace to tie up when we get there.  No one was very clear about this.  As we get closer to the docks on the other side, another dingy races past us, so we follow it in and there is a dock where lots of other dingys are tied. A short walk up the street is Downwind Marine where the seminar will be held.