5-10knot winds is pam's happy sailing day
We are still sailing it is 7:45pm the sun is going down and we are yet learning another part of sailing. At dusk getting ready for sailing at night. I often am pushed to try new stuff. Like I said I am happy sailing a craft until I know it well then move on. Ben likes to move on quickly. Well quicker than me. So here we are sailing to a bay at dusk. Of course the wind is dieing down. I thought we would be there by now but nope. I'll keep you informed as to the details once they occur. First let me tell you of our day.
Last night the waters were so rough there was no way I could sleep through it. Ben on the other hand is an amazing sleeper. Wow. I'm jealous. It was so loud! Everything squeeked, rattled, moaned, banged, clanged, twittered, etc. Owen was up too. I checked the anchor watch a few times cuz our scope was only one to six ratio. I don't know why Ben likes it at one hundred feet of chain ? We were at 16 feet. You all do the math. 16x7. Plus you can add four feet for the water line to the bow. If you did that math it would be 20x7. So I was nervous. I wonder if I wil see Ben nervous. ?
Then the navy acedmy started working out at 6:15. Needless to say. I'm a bit tired. So I thought I would start the blog before I fall asleep. But first we need to get close to the night's refuge.
We got fuel for the first time. It went well. We didn't need that much. Considering one tank is 35 gallons port and 40gallons on starbaord. I did successfully dock! It felt good and it even went the way I thought it should go. Thank darell for teaching me in theory and talking me through it!!! It worked great!!
Today was a beautiful sail. Mild winds. Too mild at times but just right other times. We saw a flock of birds fishing right infront of us. It was so fun to watch them fly up then come crashing down and splashing in the water over and over again just twenty feet from the boat. We ate leftover lasgna from yesterdays yummy restaurant dinner. Oh we bought ice and tonight I made coffee icees. Yummy yumm yum!!! Tomorrow ice willl be gone for a few days again. We plan to sail to Yorktown and see becca and Jason. We made 30 miles today that is good for always having the wind on our nose and the wind dieing down. Funny today was supposed to be 20-25 winds. The fuel guy even reminded me it was going to be tooo windy. We were ready with the reef lines but did not need them at all!
Ok how did anchoring at dusk go!? Perfect. Ben steered this time I dropped the anchor and we could still see the markers. (I dropped 100 feet of chain so I feel better tonight sleeping. I just figured out why he does not drop out more than needed cuz cleanng the anchor is hard hard to do. When you pull up anchor the chain is covered in mud and I mean thick mud!!! Then you have to scrub scrub scrubby to get it clean. That is why. We'll tomorrow I will help with the chain but not wretch my back cuz finally today is the first day my back doesn't hurt from pulling up anchor last time I did it. It was not the pulling that did it. It was the cleaning of the chain cuz you have to get water by growing a bucket attached to a rope over board then hoist up the water that is too big of a bucket for me to lift so many times. Tomorrow I will get in the water scrub the chain the just hoist up the anchor. In theory it should work and if it is a jelly free zone. We shall see. )
I beat! Good night all
Oh Owen live to sit on the very end of the bow sprit ( the longggg pointy thing out the front) tonight he was leaning way over. That boy is going to fall in someday?
Zzzzz
Oh everyday I mention our creator and I have not yet. Today was a great day for prayer so many of you have been well prayed for. Blessngs to my friends and family and whoever else reads this.
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