Heading smoothly north, up Saratoga Passage, trying to get to Deception Pass State Park for the night. I spent the morning hooking  the boat GPS to my computer, instead of using a remote antenna. One of the reasons we were in Seattle was that my friend Bob has a boat there, in Ballard and conveniently it is only 4 blocks from Lunde Marine. Where I originally bought the navigation software.  We were able to get the cables and drivers for the soft ware and instruction on how to setup the addresses on the NAVnet computer. It was like learning a foreign language, but Becky and I got it done. We left Ballard at noon and into the lockes. Coming out of the lockes a sailboat got sideways  right in front of me and rammed the breakwater. That was bad enough but when he did, his anchor deployed  and then he proceeded  to back down and stretch his anchor rode halfway across the channel. I was second out of the Locke with 4 boats behind me, I had to wave everyone around me. They couldn’t see him and there was an outflow from the Locke making things worse. I was getting some angry looks from them as they came around me. Poor man. I felt so sorry for him, it was classic, right out of Caddy Shack.

So out of the city; last night we had a great dinner and night cruise around downtown Seattle and Lake Washington. Becky cooked a great meal and we grilled some steaks. Dan Callan and his partner Kathy were onboard; it was nice to see him and a pleasure to be able to reciprocate for his generosity. Dan is my boat partner and I am hoping that he can use the boat this fall.

Cruising, Becky is cooking and she took the wheel while I mounted some hooks to secure the propane bottle for the grill. We spent two hours on the upper deck soaking up some sun, with the hand held remote control, that was nice. I’m glad that I have that working, looking forward to more of that. We had a smooth passage up Saratoga passage, on the eastern side of Whidby Island. We were late (1930) getting a mooring at Hope Island in Deception Pass State Park. But Becky managed  another great salad and fired up the BBQ with some marinaded chicken breast while I managed to keep the music on, us in the channel, and reset the heading on the radar.

Becky picked up the mooring without a hitch and after the engine was off a pair of eagles greeted us from the trees on shore.

Watched the sunset as we cleaned the salt spray off of the windows.