Wednesday, December 1, 2010

New Experiences

Well let's start by saying "today was a very interesting day".  We woke at 7am to calm seas, after getting up 3 times in the night expecting high winds and a shifting anchor.  We were very cocky with a "the weatherman doesn't know what he's talking about attitude when it began to.....I guess the best description really, is squall.  We were on the aft deck surveying the situation when Phil and Margaret in the catamaran lost their holding and went by us....this really made us pay attention and although we could not do anything to help them they did an admirable job of getting things under control. We were on alert for about a half hour when things settled down again. 

This was the story of the morning...touch and go.  The winds came and went and we had a decision to make, either haul anchor and move farther away from the docks behind us because we were pretty sure that if we let loose we wouldn't be able to stop a fiberglass to concrete collision, stay put and hope for the best or cave and get a well at the Marina.

The weather channel and VHF weather were predicting 20 to 30 mph winds tonight and this anchorage is very open to North Winds.....so our decision was to..................I am sure you are all thinking stay put but no we opted for the safety of the Marina and a decent nights sleep.  Of course the winds died the minute we tied up.

So we settled in and walked to town to get our interim inverter, which we found on sale at West Marine and it will at least power the frig.  Then we went to Phil and Margaret's boat, they also had to go into the marina because of refrigeration issues, and we had a great time learning tips from and commiserating with our fellow cruisers.

We are now watching TV for the first time in 2 weeks...highly overrated per me, but beats UNO by you know who!

1 comment:

  1. Once in a while getting that dock at the Marina is oh-so good! Your TV looks great--I just added that to my wish list!

    We just made our hotel reservations for the Strictly Sail boat show in Chicago. I will be taking some of those seminars that always scare me--you know, the ones about coping with foul weather (read huge ocean storms), how to survive when the captain falls overboard (playing Uno alone), ten ways to serve seagull when all your food is gone, how to drink urine, etc, etc.

    PS......Almost forgot--Carl says get more chain and a storm anchor!!!

    XOXOX

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