Sunday, August 26, 2012

Tuesday August 14th


We woke up with the batteries reading 14V – nice – and spent several hours in the morning cleaning the boat.  Ron did the hard part – the outside and Teresa did the easy work – the inside.  Unfortunately, the 12V vacuum cleaner, sucked up a lot of juice, despite being plugged in to shorepower, and we ended up with 12.8V L.  We then went for a bike ride along some very nice roads running along the shore hoping that the batteries would regain some charge, which they did.  We set off for Nichols Point, 44° 44.85N 73° 19.30W, in very light winds, but persevered with sailing, despite being becalmed for 15 minutes, and sailed all the way.  Of course it helped that our destination was only 3.5 nm away!  We dropped the hook in company with several other boats, and Ron went fishing.  He got a good bite, but the fish jumped out of the water and got away.  It was about 3’ long!  We both went for a swim in beautiful calm and flat water.  15 minutes after our swim it was blowing 20 knots, raining, and didn’t look at all like swimming conditions. 

Ship’s log: 2160.4 Today's log: 3.5nm, Season total: 524.9 nm

No comments:

Post a Comment