It rained all day yesterday and was still raining when we went to bed.  We listened to the weather forecast at 2030 hrs and they were still forecasting gale force winds.  I didn’t have any problem sleeping, but Al got up in the middle of the night to stand anchor watch, when the wind was gusting up to 38 knots.  The anchor seemed to be holding just fine, so after an hour he came back to bed.

Storm cell after storm cell, one right after the other, marched through here all day long… a good day for reading for me.  Al spent the day rebuilding the sea water pump.  He thought it needed a new motor, but when he got it apart, he found that the problem was a broken vane.  In his vast store of spare parts, he found a replacement vane.  So, we now have a spare sea water pump.  Yay.