Teresa is visiting her mom and Ron’s working through the
Honey Dew list on the boat. On Tuesday
the wind howled all day which was a shame, ‘cause on of my jobs was re-routing
the lines that control our mainsail stack pack.
Re-routing the lines meant throwing a weighted messenger line over the
spreaders on the mast. Tricky in 25+
knots of wind, but at least I amused several of the other boaters on the
dock. The sun was shining all day as
well and on one occasion I checked the charge we were getting from our solar
panels and the wind gen. I saw 12amps
from the wind gen and 8 amps from the solar – 20amps of free, sustainable
charge! Nice. The bad news is that our fridge, when it’s
running, sucks it up at 5 amps when the weather is really hot, (which it is
now). Typical, the first boat I’ve owned
with a fridge and I’m belly-aching about it already. Wouldn’t go back to being fridge-less though!
Later in the day on Tuesday, I went to the hardware store
and when I returned to the boat everyone was pretty excited. The wind was a little calmer now, from a
completely different direction and much cooler.
Apparently a front had passed through and it brought winds of 45 knots
with it. I missed all this so it
couodn’t have lasted too long. I would
have loved to have seen what the wind gen pumped out during the 45knot
gusts!.
Wednesday was much quieter wind wise, but still hot. Ron made good progress on his jobs and
finished up with a gin and tonic, pizza, beer and beautiful sunset.
Ship’s log: 1828.5 Today's log: 0.0nm, Season total: 193.0nm
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