Three weeks; time flies when you are having fun. After a rain squally night, the day dawned bright and sunny, although still windy from the south / southeast. I began to try and fix the leaks in the forward berth. I have Captain Tolley’s Creeping Crack Cure, and poured it in to the one area and it came through. Yes, I found the issue!!! I re-bedded the screws in the window also. As I was working on deck, here comes Dennis and Mary’s boat heading east with no one in the cockpit. I hailed them noting that they were dragging their anchor. Once reset, Dennis noted that with the tides and current, the chain had wrapped around the anchor not allowing it to reset itself.
The sunny day did not last long. The front that was forecast came through, and with it the rains. The salon window where I had re-bedded the screws no longer leaked. Unfortunately, I did not have enough time to complete the fix on the forward berth and it still leaked, not as profusely as before, but enough to be a PIA. The port side salon window also requires attention.
After the Dennis and Mary’s boat escapade, Dennis came by and we looked at my anchor. I decided that even though we were still set, we should move out of the tidal surge area into shallower water. Given that our boat only draws about two feet, we moved into some 2 – 3 foot water. Once we had backed down on the anchor, I walked out to the anchor and stood on it while Beth backed down on it again burying it in the sand. As the wind switched from the south to north, I was happy that we moved and set the anchor deep. During the night we topped out at 27 knots and with all 80 foot of chain and additional rode, we stayed put. Dinner was fish, rice, and broccoli, still no luck with the fishing pole.
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