July 29 -- Smith Cove to Sag Harbor to Orient Harbor -- 14 NM

A day of solving some problems but not others, and no sailing, though we could have sailed a bit on the second leg of today's journey. Watermaker use was foiled by my lack of filters, so we needed to stop for water. (We do have paper plates, and can wash silverware and pots in a pint of our three gallons of bottled drinking water, but happy wife requires water.) Found our by phone that while Sag Harbor was having a fuel shortage it had plenty of water and Sag Harbor Marine Park sent two youths to meet us, help us tie up bow in to pilings on both sides,  and we filled both water tanks and out drinking water bottles, using the new small portable in line filter that David gave to us. There, at the dock, we got closer to "Odessa" which had passed us the day before.

Then off to Orient Yacht Club in Orient Harbor, the big bay between Orient Point and Greenport. Lots of room to anchor but for a mere $30 we could take showers too, and that's what sold Lene on the idea -- an outdoor shower no less, her favorite.  And The Country Store restaurant was in walking distance. But before that another problem: Water tanks are full and the foot pump pumps water to the galley sink but while the electric fresh water pump hums, it produces so water to any faucet. Must be an air leak? So I tightened everything. Still no go. The culprit was the small mechanical filter set in line between the tanks and adjacent to the pump. In sucking up the last bit of water we could from near the bottom of the almost empty tanks, we had pulled up gunk which clogged the filter. Once cleaned out the system ran fine. And the other thing that makes my mate happy is a clean boat so we spent a few hours cleaning. 

But at dinner time, the next problems: the Dinghy would not start. So no showers or dinner ashore. And when cooking dinner, the propane ran out. But we have two of those small green camping cans of propane and an adapter so that the gas can flow from the cans to the galley stove. As to the outboard, let's let her rest overnight and try again in the morning. A cool night.