Olympia Washington August 18 -19th , 2008

Well the Diesel Duck did arrive over at the SwanTown Marina which is a short ½ mile walk from the west harbor of Budd Inlet. We spent some time aboard the Duck watching her be commissioned. This particular boat was not quite the “motorsailer” that Alexus was interested in seeing. The owner of the boat spent more effort on making it very robust with both flopper stoppers and sailing stability assist, as he has two small boys. As a result, "sail only" performance was not really important to him.

We spent the rest of the time touring Olympia and enjoying the sights. Olympia is a very laid back town and the Olympia Yacht Club is right across from the Capitol Building so we had a great view of the lake, and park area in front of the Capitol Building. We had lunch at the Oyster House Restaurant, which is an old restaurant famous for the Olympia Oysters. While in Olympia, we met and spoke with Mike Phillips, a yacht broker in Olympia, that we had met previously at Trawler Fest. He came aboard to look over NuMoon and hear about all the improvements we had made to her. Of course Mike was interested in sending us home in a new Seahorse Trawler, but we are not ready for a new boat until we decide what we want to do next in boating.