So that was an interesting day. The internet is flaky so these entries are a bit of a mess. I’ll clean them up when I can or when I get back to civilization. I’m pretty sure my damn phone spent the entire day searching for cell towers and that’s why the battery was gone before noon. So the track from yesterday is split in two and missing the middle bit.

I’m sitting in the dock in Blind Channel Resort listening to the geese and being swarmed by tiny bugs. The geese here are seriously loud and the bugs are seriously annoying.

Yesterday we cast off from Squirrel Cove fairly early and motored in the glass calm water. As a result we arrived at Yucalta Rapids an hour or so early so we tacked back and forth to kill time.

The Rapids were a non-issue. We did see a ton of sea lions on a rocky beach, so we turned around and engaged in mutual gawking. They were louder than we were.

The day progressed until we hit Green Point rapids which we took at max ebb so it was a fun little ride with 6 knots of current helping us along. After the Rapids we raised the jib and motor-sailed back and forth up the channel for an hour or so until suddenly the motor died.

Apparently we had been cruising in the smaller tank at above average rpms and run the tank dry. Unfortunately the Perkins doesn’t like that and restarting it proved impossible because we couldn’t bleed the lines. Tim and I fussed with it for about 20 minutes while the rest of the crew sailed back towards the rapids where we had come from. We were 8 nm or so from two lodges (Cordero Bay and Blind Channel) so we got on the radio and called for assistance. Blind Channel sent out an aluminum cruiser and 30 minutes later hooked up a tow to our bow line.

It was an hour back to the marina and a docking without power worthy of R Shack Island, but soon we were tied up and ready for dinner.

An exciting day…

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The Track Part I

The Track Part I

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