Today we woke up ate pancakes, bacon and eggs performed morning duties and were invited by Jim out to his boat for burgers. Jim had a boat called an Island Trader, it has hand carved doors with dragons and oriental carviings, there is a hand carved dragon on the bow of his boat starboard and port! Look up the boat online they are beautiful. It is a 1980’s model and from what i learned the best sailboats are not normally the newest ones. Craftsmanship means a lot i have found out. Anyway we got into our dinghy which is an adventure in itself. I have to climb down off the bow of the boat holding on to the handle on the deck of the boat and perching precariously on one foot in the dinghy for balance and jumping into boat while maintaining enough balance not to tip dinghy over, or just fall off the side and in to the cold bay water, OOOOSSSHHH! Well into the dinghy without incident and revving up our Yamaha and into the wild blue yonder out to the Eros II for burgers and home fries. Jim used to own several restaurants and i cant wait for meal. Our dinghy has no lights so we have to be very careful even though the boat is not that far away the big boats come in and out of the bay all day long. The waves hit our dinghy and bounce us around like a piece of styrofoam on the water. The waves bouncing up over the bow a little bit is fun. Bobbing like a fishing bobber we finally made it to Jim’s sailboat and tied it off climbed the ladder to the deck and crawled over the pads that cover the helm seats. Jim has a center enclosed console on his boat with seats all around the wheel. Small wooden doors that lead down to a large salon with a walk thru kitchen ( all down one wall ) behind that is the big master berth and bath. Also past the salon is another berth and second bath. It is all beautiful wood. Pam (Jim’s woman) was there and we had a wonderful time. We played with the cats and one of them is huge like Garfield. They are both brothers and 9 years old. After our wonderful meal we hopped back into the dinghy and made our way back to the Thingamajig. The water looks beautiful and it feels great out here in the water. Moonlight gleaming on the water making the waves look etherial. Loving this life couldn’t ask for more. Thanks to Steve I am the happiest woman in the world right now. I wish my son Daniel could be here too. After climbing back on the boat with the dinghy moving back and forth i managed to pull myself up on the deck. tied up the dinghy so Steve could climb aboard. His “pirate beard” is coming along fine. My own pirate!

CAPTAINS LOG:  Get a dinghy motor you can manage with more than 2 horsepower if you can.