Day 10, 8/27/07 Roche Harbor, San Juan Island

We all slept in and then Cindy and Tom spent most of the morning packing up to leave. We decided to join them in taking the shuttle bus over to Friday Harbor. We found the dock where they were to catch a float plane back to Seattle. They left their bags at the office, and then walked over to a pub where we had lunch. When we went back to the docks to wait for their flight, there was a Komo 4 News plane tied up with a news anchor man there (can’t remember his name – ugh!) When Tom & Cindy’s plane arrived, the pilot asked if anyone wanted to sit up front next to him, and Tom’s hand shot up immediately. He was so excited, and I think that made his day. It certainly made Scott and I feel better about leaving them. We were excited for them, rather than feeling sad to see them go. While we were leaving the docks we noticed a shop selling live prawns so we bought some to take home for dinner. Carter gladly cooked us all some dinner on our boat with the prawns, pasta, bread and salad. Absolutely delicious! We spent the rest of the evening talking about our plans to leave for Port Angeles where we hoped to get more water and re-provision.

-Admiral Marian

This is probably a good point to catch you up on an aspect of our trip that hasn’t been discussed previously. We are joining another boat in our trip south. Patrick, Susan and Jonathan Coonan are aboard a 43’ Nordhavn named Paloma. Patrick is retired eye surgeon and Susan is home, or boat, schooling 8 year old Jonathan for the foreseeable future. I met Patrick at a Trawlerfest in Poulsbo several times and came to admire and respect him greatly. He is an experienced sailor and making the move to power. We found we share many beliefs and feel we may be good traveling companions, so we agreed to travel to the FUBAR event together. We were due to meet Patrick in Neah Bay on August 28th, but a problem arose that caused a change in plans. Patrick had been having a slight oil leak in the transmission on his boat and several days earlier the leak got worse. Patrick worked with representatives of the company to identify and repair the problem and that put a bit of a delay in our departure planning. At this point we had agreed to meet in Port Angeles on Thursday the 28th. We are really looking forward to meeting with Patrick and beginning our journey south.

-Skipper