Along the way, Mae took the dinghy over to see Karen and Jim on Sockdolager. At that point, Jim and Mae decided to switch places and Jim surprised Marty when he returned in the dinghy. It was a good thing to leave the husbands on one boat and the wives on the other. Jim told Marty that never in his life had he considered leaving one sailboat and getting onto another while underway.
We motored for a bit and Mae tried steering Sockdolager, using the tiller but she had a hard time steering a straight course. Jim told Marty, on board Wild Abandon, that something was wrong with his boat as it was going funny. Without looking at their boat, Marty said right away that it was Mae’s steering. Mae has a hard time steering in a straight line. She tried steering with her foot at one point, hoping that would work better.
The wind picked up slightly and we put up our sails. Once again with Marty’s quote of, “When there are two sailboat on the water, it’s a race.” We will not write who won that race, but it is evident from the picture. We then switched back the crew. We docked at Point Hudson Marina while Sockdolager went to their permanent docks at Port Townsend Boat Haven. Once both boats cleaned up and got settled, we went to Karen and Jim’s favorite pub, “Sirens,” for dinner.
