Busy, busy, busy!

Please, click on the picture for the whole article. Wow, we just went thru seven hours of heavy duty thunder, lightning and rain! Other than that, the weather here has been sunny and warm (70 degrees).
This area has several places to eat, as you know I am a total foodie. Yesterday we went to a French Restaurant named "Sweet Laurette's"; We had a pork tenderloin, cheese, mushroom sandwich on cranberry bread, and a cheese, egg, ham sandwich called Croque Madame; to die for!

We revisited the sail loft where they make, what else, planetarium cloth? They were cutting black-out cloth for use on the round domed ceiling of a planetarium. They use a table that is about 50 feet long, it has holes in it which are connected to a vacuum; this holds the material absolutely flat. Tracks on either side of the table are what carries a computer assisted cutting machine that glides along cutting several patterns at the same time, and doing so precisely. And, of coarse, they were also making a spinnaker, which is the large colorful sail seen on the front of sailboats. This one was a chocolate brown, they only last about seven years. Cost? $5,000! I guess I will no longer grouse about spending $2,000 for the motor home tires every seven years.

From the sail loft we walked down to the harbor and went aboard the "Hawaiian Chieftain", classified as a Ketch, this square master was over one hundred years old and still very much in operation.