Just home from dinner with our friends Diane and Don who have packed up their Gloucester house and have moved to Long Island. Chinese take-out, champagne in plastic cups (celebrating the sell of above house) and a SHOWER for David and me. Wow! What good friends.

Used Toni's gift of the change purse full of quarters, plus some of my own, in the laundry mat today. Now we have clean towels and undies and jeans! Laundry mat was just up the road and a nice one, too. David tackled some wiring, successfully. Now we each have a cigarette-type plug at our seat in the salon so we can recharge our various tech instruments without creating so many tripping hazards. What a guy! Other "home" improvements - I finished the hand work on another cushion today and scraped some more varnish off railings.

It was great to have bright sun this morning, after a night of wind and rocking and rolling. And, the just past full moon on our walk back from Diane and Don's was wonderful. Mild, welcome day/night.

Thinking we may leave this port tomorrow late morning. We've been befriended by Val who works here. She gave David her card and said, "Now you call me when you get home. I worry." We'll check the wind/wave action before heading out tomorrow. I have that app (Windfinder) on my phone now, too.