Laundry

Saturday night we anchored out at Ucluelet. Fairly uneventful except for early Sunday morning the wind started to come from the south and built to around 18 knots. A little after 10:00 am we hoisted the anchor and came into the "small boat harbor". Most of the boats are fishing boats, long liners and trawlers with some smaller sport fishing boats. On the transient docks are a few of us sailboats. Across the way is the Canadian Princess, an old steamer that once was a cruise ship and also did coastal duty during WWII. Now it is a floating fishing lodge with a nice restaurant where we had lunch on the foredeck today.

Sunday was laundry day, 4 loads worth. The last time we did laundry was Ketchikan, so it had piled up. Rich did a little provisioning as well. We are also catching up on correspondence. The wireless is a little iffy so yesterday's posting to the blog got lost in cyberspace.

Ucluelet has grown up a bit. There are a lot more condominiums, resorts, townhomes, etc in the area. It is also a very popular surfing spot. On top of one of the hills (or a mountain) in Barclay Sound is a large radar site, which looks like a giant white ball. It also has an AIS transponder on top as well. I overheard someone ask the harbormaster what it was and his joking reply was that it marked Arnold Palmer's summer home. Snicker.

No worries,

SV Windarra