Sunday, December 15, 2013

Full main sail and jib! That's right, we are really

sailor's now!

 This is what the map is showing....

I'm trying to figure out the 1,2,3, & 4

and how it's going to look....

This is the map of how we got in and out

of Fox Town



 Coming into Fox Town

I'm trying to get a shot of the rocks all together

so you can get an idea of what the map is showing us 

 

 We can't quite figure out what is causing the sunset

to set like this?  Maybe some land somewhere?

Me taking advantage of washing the boat

during a rain storm!

We left this morning around 10 a.m.  We put the main up again and learned a lot about it.  I think when we first got the boat we pulled every line we could to make it as tight as possible to keep the noise down at night while we were sleeping.  Wrong move!  Now that we are finally using the sail we are learning all the ins and outs as to why it’s so hard to get up (due to us tightening the reefing lines) and other lines we used to keep it quiet!  But I think we finally have it under control.  It took us about an hour to really get it up to the top and all the lines loosened to the point where they need to be.   Now we need to figure out how to bring it down without all the lines hanging out all over the place.  We’ve decided we are taking Gary & Jayne out one day and having them show us what order and how we are supposed to do things when bringing up the main.

We also ran the water maker all morning.  It is very, very good drinkable water now.  We made about 7 gallons before turning it off.  It’s quite amazing how you can take the ocean saltwater and turn it into very clean tasty water.  Who would have thought our membrane for the water maker would still be good after these last couple of years sitting dormant.  We have a new one we were going to put in but decided to try and use this one first just to see how it worked.  Glad we did now! 

We anchored at Fox Town around 2 this afternoon.  Once we were done and settled we could hear Christmas music coming from the island.  It was so neat!  We ended up staying in for the evening and doing nothing.  Right before we went to bed for the night the rain came!  Yeah!  It/I washed all the salt off the boat and it will be nice and clean for tomorrow!