Winds storms hail - anchored 3 times!
Well today we left mobjack river cuz it was to be 95degrees and 10-15 winds. Today we were beating into wind and flying at 7.8 knots. That's screamin! That is the best ever!! Amazing what sail configurations do! Well the right ones.
Today against my best judgement we cut through this narrow path to avoid 2 extra hours. One map said it was seven feet narrow one map said five feet narrow one the gsp said seven at the narrow. Now if our gsp was at the wheel it would be so easy but instead it is at the nav station. So one of us yells to the other Port or Starboard by a little or lot or two degrees. Etc... I being captain have decided that Ben is way better at drivng and me way better at giving direction. I guess I'm good at giving direction. Just ask my staff. Or my kids. It is a strength that can be a limitation if used wrong. My personality , if any of you believe me, it is passive and not give direction. I like to give direction when no one else will do it or if I know I can do a better job. I even sit back and let others lead even when I could have done something different. It's all subjective. I am a horrible back seat driver cuz I have been in three accidents allnot my fault and me not driving. So when it comes to driving and safety I'd rather be captain than not. Even though I'd rather just be a midshipman. When Ben gets more experience I'm sure I'd rather be along for the ride. Unless he doesn't do the paper work involved. He hates paper work. Like right now we have been running on starbaord deisel for 21 hours. Soon I shall switch to port. The water tanks is on forward. The deisel fuel filter looks good the oil is one quart low which I plan to add tomorrow. I wrote down the weather report for the next few days. I review yesterdays tracks. The propane is on the second tank. There is enough food in the locker for two days. But we are near becca and Jason and soon they will drive us to reprovision! Like chocolate and bread. Yummmy
Today I played the eye doctor game. "do you like one ot two. One or two. Three or two ..." I would change the sail configuration and check speed. We had a great day of steady winds. It was so fun to try different stuff. I played with the blocks and boomvang ect... Up til now Ben has pretty much done the sails. But now I'm ready and I am way stronger than two weekes ago. I got a work out today. Even pulled up the anchor chain twice. Hoisted the sails. Oh while sailing we had our first bird sit on the bow sprit rail. Cute! We had one big old dragonfly and two other little ones. Fun fun. Don't ya love wild life? I do! "Go God Go"
Then we went into Sarah creek. A huge storm came up. We got to anchor but I had to run aground again. Ben was giving directions. We anchored and slipped back into the muddy shore line. The winds were 35 with hail. The boat totally heeled way over while anchored! Don't know why. I think cuz we were a ground? We pulled up and moved over but it would not hold. We move to a different part of the creek. We are holding but right on the edge of mud again. I hope I sleep tonight. The lord is so good. Today i didn't want to go through the pass. We past the enterence. But then for some reason I changed my mind. If we had not taken the short cut we would have been out in the storm. Which would have been not so bad. I think. It was big and scary but not worth worrying over. I did send a few prayers upward for safety and He listened. Amazing.
I am physically and mentally exhausted.
Good night.
Bens birthday on the 27 th! Don't forget to call or send prayers or brownies his way. Text and email will do too.
Miss you all
Pam
Ptl
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