And the beat goes on...

So does the wind and the dirt blowing in it... that just doesn't sound as good for a song, though. ;-)

Wednesday was supposed to be the windiest day this week.  We had winds gusting above 30, and plenty of dirt and sand in the wind.  Yesterday (Thursday) was worse - more wind, more dirt.  And today?  Yep, even more worser.  The wind is only gusting to 32 currently, but there seems to be more dirt in it.  We could use some rain.

Fortunately, we have most of the work we wanted to do to the boat done... but, the cockpit is facing into the wind, so the bimini and and cockpit are grubby.  We still need to get things loaded; we're ahead of schedule, so we have a pad.

Speaking of 'pad', I heard from a sailing buddy this morning... he wants to get his wife an e-Reader, but he would like to be able to use it for navigation on the boat, too.  That kinda narrows things down.  He didn't want to spend the bucks for the new iPad, so I suggested shopping around for a used one.  Lots of folks want to have the newest, bestest... we're still using our 'old timey' original iPad, and it works just fine.  Doesn't have a camera in it, but we have cameras.  As I've said before, you have to buy one of the 3G (or 4G now with the new iPad) models, not just wifi if you want to use it for navigation.  The wifi only models do not have a built-in GPS chip.  I suggested he visit a Best Buy or Verizon store to try the iPad and other tablets hands-on.

I just checked weather for Friday Harbor (our summer destination)... pretty much the opposite of what's going on here: showers predicted for everyday for the next week, mostly winds of 10 mph or less.  I may start growing gills. ;-)