Day 83 - Finger twins
I forgot to mention that we had to turn on the heat last night! We started this summer with cold nights and now it is returning to that. The winds were better this morning, but we were still rolling with occasional bigger waves. Thankfully mostly on the bow and not knocking us around too much. Captain tried to turn the heat back on this morning (I had turned it off in the middle of the night as it heated up the cabin enough) and it was giving us trouble and not lighting. We will for sure need to service that stove after eight years use. We had smoke coming out the vent when it finally lit and we are pretty sure she just needs a good clean out. Captain wrote the company in Europe.
We headed to shore as Captain wanted some Beignets and we wanted to grab some more power. For some reason we are a bit power hungry these last few days but I suspect we are just being a bit lazier with our power with the end in sight.
Back at Ciara I did our dishes from last night as it was just not a possibility last night with the motion of the boat. It was a lot easier this morning. We spent the day going through Ciara and adding up her inventory and setting aside things to take home so we can lessen the load tomorrow to get back to port. The boat has become home for sure and I will take stock of our time on board in the upcoming weeks. We truly enjoyed this last afternoon of relaxing at anchor.
We decided to spare ourselves dishes and worrying about the stove as well as celebrate our last night aboard Ciara by going out for dinner. We had hoped to do the local BBQ place but it was closed on Monday evening. We looked at menus for the other places in town but they were pretty POSH and we wouldn’t be able to bring Kona so we decided to get pizza, again. Plus pizza makes excellent leftovers for breakfast underway tomorrow.
We ran into Craig and Sue who we met yesterday on the power cat at dinner. They sat with us and we had a great time chatting about all our adventures. They have been out since mid-June and have another week or so to go. At one point Sue noticed she was missing half of her ring finger on her right hand and therefore perfect mirror to Captain’s missing finger. We all got such a laugh and learned they both lost their digit in a docking accident. We traded stories as the sun set and eventually, they said their good-byes. Captain and I sat by the fire until they shut them off around 10pm. We spent the time just reflecting on how amazing the summer has been and how we both made it happen.
We don’t have far to go tomorrow. The winds will have died down a lot but I fear for residual seas and an uncomfortable ride. I mostly hope we finish safely at our port of call and that we have a safe trip home. I laid in bed, unable to really understand that this time tomorrow I will have had a shower and laying in a bed that wasn’t moving.
