On Monday, March 24, the crescent moon was still shining brightly despite the cloud cover as dawn started.
Dawn was spectacular
This morning, Eric called ARCO again and managed to get through to a customer service person. This time, the customer service person did send the schematics over to Eric and told Eric to check the regulator setting to make sure that it was set to Viktron. Eric spent the day mulling over whether it was wise to turn the Zeus box back on.
Continue readingFriday, March 21 — The Nordhavn 68 in this photo was named Stella Luna, and we got this great shot of her under the brightly glowing, half-full luna at dawn.
Like yesterday, the wind was low and the bay was calm, so after we finished school and chores, we headed out to go snorkeling with some other families. Our rendezvous spot was at the southwestern tip of Stocking island.
As we had briefly mentioned back in December, we (relatively) recently upgraded our dinghy. We’d had a Gig Harbor hard shell sailing/rowing dinghy with a Torqueedo 503 electric motor with 1.5 horsepower. We also had 50-watt solar panels to charge the motor when we had it out, which were made by Torqueedo. We were very happy with those solar panels.
Continue readingOn Thursday, March 20, the moon was still shining vividly at dawn
Sunrise
After we’d finished our morning chores/school, we went to Sand Dollar Beach for a birthday party. The birthday boy was turning nine. We’d never met him, but they’d announced on the morning radio net that everyone was invited. We figured that this would be a great opportunity to meet some other families.
Sand Dollar beach started on the Elizabeth Harbour side of the Kahari Resort (the resort we’d seen yesterday at the end of the little inlet). Here is a shot of the resort
The moon was only 2/3 full, but still looking huge and vibrant during dawn on Wednesday, March 19
Sunrise
Since it was kind of hard to explain the geography of this area, we figured the path of least resistance would be to post a picture of the chart so that it is possible follow what we are talking about. The red blob was Chat N Chill beach.
Today we got lunch onshore at a restaurant called The Snappy Turtle in the St. Francis Resort and Marina, which was located at the blue blob in the chart above.
Continue readingTuesday, March 18 — The last three days have been quiet. We’ve primarily focused on school and chores. On Sunday, the wind was still screaming at 20-knots, and on Monday it picked up even more. The wind also drastically shifted directions. One of the reasons this anchorage was packed right now was because there were not many all-weather anchorages in the area. With the forecast indicating such a drastic wind shift, many boaters — including us — determined that Elizabeth Harbor was the best place to ride out the forecasted storm.
The storm finally hit on Monday night. The lightning started as the sun was setting, and the wind got even stronger. The rain started shortly thereafter, and it was pretty hard rain. The anchor alarm went off four times in the night, so needless to say, Eric did not sleep well. On Tuesday morning, the wind did calm down a lot, but it was still windy enough to make the harbor choppy.
Here was the sunrise on Monday.
The moon has continued to be stunning. It wasn’t even full anymore, and yet it was still so big, colorful and luminous. This was a shot from Sunday morning.
As for fun activities… we have had several people come by in their dinghies to say hi. It’s definitely a social place.
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