Well, today is Tuesday and the Tsunami hit Japan on Friday. Only today is the water back to normal. For the past few days, the water has been rising and falling every half hour our so, by about 5 feet. The water was full of little swirls, or vortexes and just looked kind of odd. Most people didn’t take their boats out. We need to go to the Police docks to pump out our holding tank, but its been closed down. It might be open today, but we can’t take the boat out cause we’re having some engine work done (the muffler has been removed).
The Police docks were closed down due to strong current (from the Tsunami), and a submerged boat (which I assume sank due to the turbulent waters). The guy next door went out a couple of days ago and said there was a big vortex by the entrance to the harbour. All strange stuff.
We went out sailing on Sunday, though. Sharon took her out of the dock, but with some coaching from the captain. It took some extra care and maneuvering due to the strange currents. It was too risking bringing her back in, so the captain did it.
But once we got out there, it was beautiful. We had all the sails up and were heeling over nicely, going at a good clip. We got a good look at a sea lion hanging around one of the buoys, and got some pics. There were a few races going on as well as a mock cannon battle between a couple of old-style tall ships.
We tried to get a good picture of the boat with her sails up, but it’s a bit difficult to do from aboard.
Here’s an old aircraft carrier (now a museum).
One of the boats involved in the mock cannon battle.
We continue to work on the boat as much as we can ourselves. We’re slowly turning into mechanics, plumbers and electricians. Yesterday we working on one of the bilge pumps and fixed our salt-water wash down (for cleaning off the anchor when off-shore). Today we’ll continue fixing the bilge pump and will be washing her down to get the salt off from our day of sailing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2saeSbnOmLQ
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