Jeff's Log ~ Saturday May 31st, 2008

0530 34 19.245N 133 44.274E Enroute to Osaka

Yesterday was rather quiet. We spent the day motoring against a knot of current the whole day. The marina we were bound for was small, and the dock was full of fishing boats. We proceeded across the bay, and anchored in the lee of an island on the outer edge of a fish farm. Mark prepared a nice spaghetti dinner, after which a good night’s sleep followed. This morning, Scott and I got up and were under way by 0500. It had rained lightly for part of the night, so the predawn air was very cool and damp. Each of the taller hills in the area was generating its own cloud at the top, making some of the taller ones look like they had a halo. We are heading for another large suspension bridge about ten miles away. We have gone under a few of them already, and the beauty of them never ceases to amaze me. There is always a certain grace and elegance to them.

Today is scheduled to be a short run ending in a real yacht marina. So far, the marinas that another sailing couple told us about have failed to materialize, so we will see. I think that they just copied the list out of some old cruising guide. At any rate, tomorrow we will arrive in Osaka, and will be able to re-provision and get laundry done. We are beginning to run out of staples- especially beer!!

The suspension bridge has a railway underneath it, and as we were going under the bridge in the rain, a train went roaring by us overhead. The weather has deteriorated since pulling the hook, and now a steady rain is falling and fog has set in.