We shared the anchorage with Mon Tiki, Dogstar, and some random trawler. (do they name those too?lol)
Departure was about 10AM, much later then Mon Tiki, as he is an early riser, and Dana is not. (I am writing this at 5AM) Completely uneventful night.
At this point we had not touched bottom again. That is a big change from the NC ICW, where we hit bottom no less then 4 times.
I often pass other sailboats on the ICW. Most are bare poled. I can never work out why. There are sailing opportunities every day almost. In fact, when I have even a little blow at least the jib is unfurled.
I am nearly the only one. In fact sometimes we kill the engine and drift at 3kts for a few hours. Free is free right? That is why we got a salboat. The less we spend, the more we save, the longer we can stay sailing and not working.
This day went very well. It was uneventful, and again full of dolphins. We motored 5 hours, sailed 4 hours.
Being passed by Dogstar, a trio of happy folks on a small boat.
This was our last leg of the day, we crossed the bay on sail power, and anchored at the west end for the night. What a nice chilly day of sailing, and motoring. We are still loving our trip, and cannot wait to continue. We are working daily to adjust to this life, and we are loving it.
It would be a good idea when you are starting a new entry to give a location such as the nearest town, city, cow pasture, state, river ect. It makes it much easier for your followers to get a correct idea of your location......:)
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! I will try from now on. However we did not Know the location of the anchorage either night on this leg, and when we are tired, we don't think to look.
ReplyDeleteIf going down the ICW leave the mile marker number of your last port or starboard marker and whether you are north or south of a fair size town and the state. When you get to the islands you must make sure you are marking down on your paper charts where you are. In case of an emergency if the Gps fails people will have an idea of where to go if you need assistance. By the way it works on the ICW.
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We actually have 3 GPS on board. 1 runs on the house batteries with charts, a second runs on AA batterys, with charts. The third runs on AA's with no charts. So even in the event of a lightning strike we still have two backups. We keep about 60 new AA batteries on board. Now if the GPS satellites stop working, we have paper charts. I find them useful only for transpac and such. The mile marker would be a great idea on the ICW thou, and i will note that from now on.
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