Today I met the crew of sailing vessel Koae a 42' Westsail captained by Jesse B. and crewed by two friends Amanda, Paul and now me for this leg of the trip. They were a much more simpatico crew than Bruce was on last year's trip. Greatly a great group. I met them at the marina, we did a bit of cleaning, filling water, rebuiding the wind vane, and then off for provisioning. A hefty $700 grocery bill means we probably went a bit overboard. With daylight ticking away, we motored out of the marina with an engine that had started to run rough since Mexico, so after 5 minutes we shut off the engine, and hoisted the sails as the sun was setting. Jesse made dinner, after that he went over some of the operations
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