Travel Day

Up and caffeinated, unveiling the last two windows in the aft a cabin before pushing off the dock at 8:30. We were prepared to be motoring most of the day but found some pockets of wind that allowed us to motor sail up to 7knots (vs 5 with engine only). Always exciting, however, it severely skewed our ETA.
During the day we read, relaxed, chatted, watched whales from the roof of the pilothouse, put the bungs in the window frames, took in the marvellous sunset (had beans and wieners for supper), laid on the deck watching stars. Overall an absolutely beautiful transit, although the batteries were not staying charged so we had to run the generator at the same time as the engine.
Our ETA became a problem as we were facing anchoring in the dark, in an unknown and crowded anchorage, at 1:30am vs 6:30am. Our first try didn’t hold, so we tried again (anchoring in 45 ft of water requires ALOT of chain)…this time the chain got balled up in the chain locker — and disaster struck!Read more