Wednesday, July 4 Port McNeill Happy 4th!

The weather is sunny in the 60’s and they say it will be getting warmer over the next week.  We hope to get off the dock tomorrow.  As we were having coffee in the salon we heard a boat horn honking madly.  When we looked up we saw a 37 foot Nordic Tug heading for our port side, head on.  The poor woman on the bow was frantic. We jumped up to fend off the boat.  Fortunately they were moving dead slow because there engine had quit on their way from the fuel dock to their moorage spot.  Absolutely no problem.  They are Faye and Herb on m/v Fellowship.  We side tied them to us while they got the engine going again.  We took this free day to have lunch at the Pub and run errands.  We picked up the few things we needed and got ready to do laundry.  We packed everything up and Fred walked with me to the Laundromat.  Oh my gosh!  People are standing in line waiting for a machine.  We went back to the boat and I said we would do laundry on Emerald Star. The washer & dryer were big selling points to me.  Because the 50 amp power cord is huge and heavy, Fred usually hooks us up to power with 30 amp service.  That is usually more than enough.  However, the dryer takes either 50 amp service or the generator turned on.  Fred kindly man-handled the 50 amp cord to power so I could get the laundry done.