I've been told that I've been a little hard on Tom in my documentation of this trip so far. He says it's OK because I didn't have anything better to write about and, besides, he's strong enough to handle the abuse.
But today I have good things to say about him.
First of all, after we went into town to get wifi and do a little shopping, we came back to the boat and Tom replaced our refrigerator water intake filter/screen with a much larger unit. This was a fairly big job in cramped quarters. He even managed it with minimal cursing which to me means it went together fairly much as he planned. And now we won't be having to clean out the filter nearly as often, and when we do, the location of the new apparatus is more easily accessible.
Later as we were relaxing a bit topside, we noticed another boat aground in the very place we had tried unsuccessfully to anchor when we first came into Town Creek. So, into the dinghy went that tired fellow and off he drove to try to rescue the boat. Unfortunately the tide was really low and getting lower and the boat was dug in pretty well. Tom and one other good Samaritan in a dinghy managed to get the bow pointed into deeper water but that was it. They would have to wait until the tide came in around midnight to move further. Several small power boats which could have helped passed right by without offering assistance. What's wrong with that picture? Luckily the grounded boat had a fin keel so they could remain upright rather than on their side while waiting for higher water.
And that was our day today. Tomorrow we head to Mile Hammock down the ICW. We hear it gets very crowded this time of year and so plan to leave early to get a good spot in the anchorage.
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