Reporting from a dock in Grays Harbor. While waiting on the mill to load up our barge with chips, I thought I would describe sailing day. My job on sailing day is to run over to Safeway and get a load of provisions for the journey. This takes several hours just to ring up the order. Then I pile it all on the truck… then pile it all on a pallet….
Then we hoist it over to the dock. 
Well, normally, we would hoist to the boat….But sometimes our boat is tied beside a boat that’s tied to the dock.
In this case, our boat was getting fuel from the boat that was tied to the boat that was tied to the dock….so we had to cross two boats to get to ours. So we brought everything to the first boat 
Then staged all the boxes on the cap rail 
So we schlepped thru the galley of the second boat,
And then on to our boat… the Suiattle.
So, this takes a bunch of guys an hour or so.
Then I have to pull everything out of the boxes, find places for it and then break down the boxes. Then I had a bit of time to unpack my bags before I had to cook dinner - 
Battered and fried filet of sole with garlic sweet peas and brown rice.
Tomorrow I’ll write up my morning watch routine.
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