OtherGoose: Friday Nov 14

Friday Nov 14

This morning was COLD, but we still had the heater on. It was about 8 degrees outside but 15 in the boat. We got up and went to take the car back. We met the Canadians on Secundo, out of St. John NB, also heading down to Florida [where else?]. They go every year at this time and are late because they also had to replace a motor but they didn’t do it themselves. Betty wants to leave the boat and not bring it back in the spring but she doesn’t think she can talk him out of it. I told her to tell him she would wait for him down there. She laughed, he didn’t.

We took the car back and Mike gave us a ride to the mall. He said it was too cold to walk even if we were from Canada. He was wearing a heavy wool overcoat and a toque. He said he’d feel guilty if he let us walk! The MacArthur Centre is a huge mall as big as any in TO. We waited for the stores to open but we couldn’t find a camera. As it turns out it didn’t matter...we weren’t allowed to take pictures of Elsa’s Ice Palace (3 stories) built in the middle of the mall anyway, but I managed to get one on the phone before the Security guard told me I wasn’t supposed to. Now I just have to figure out how to get it off.

I am going to laundry and shower. Rick is going back to the mall to get some things we forgot. I met Helen from Voyager, and they are going to head down to Elizabeth City via the other route so we’ll probably see them down there. She has a “day off” so she was getting ready to go out. They are from Maryland.

Spent a long time talking to the owner of the Gemini comparing catamarans and trips and problems. He broke his drive too, but didn’t have the skills to fix it himself. Good thing he has money!

We did something very un-sailorish tonight...we went to the show! There is a complex across the road with 8 theatres. We went to see Interstellar... VERY intense! Personally, I’d watch Matthew McConoughey sell salt, so I really liked it, besides the fact that it was a science movie. But the theatre was too loud! It was also empty...I think 8 of us were in there.

We toured the Norwegian ship before we went. We were talking to one of the crew, who told us they were waiting for new sails because 8 of their sails were ripped in the hurricane that just ran up the coast. I asked her how she liked being on it and she said that it beats a 7:30-3:30 job. I asked her about running up the rigging and she said she “has a depth of field problem so she never really can tell how high up she is!” I got vertigo just standing on the lower deck looking over!

So here are some pictures and were going to bed to get ready for tomorrow’s departure. Apparently there is more weather coming for Monday so we want to be across Albemarle Sound by then, which means we need to take off in the morning.