Beautiful day!
We spent the morning cleaning and organizing the boat as we would be having our grand daughter Emm and her mom Sarina for the night the next day.
We decided head out back to Camelot to practice anchoring tied up to shore one more time.
We sailed when we could with a north wind 7-8 knots.
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Trip Odometer: 7.4 miles
Trip Start: 14:51
Trip End: 16:52
Trip Duration: 00:02:01
Average Speed: 3.7 knots
We did our normal routine:
Headed the boat upwind and dropped the anchor in 60ft of water.
Backed the boat up until the anchor set.
Ran a line to shore with the dingy.
All is well, except we were about 40ft from shore, and wanted to move the boat closer to shore.
This meant letting more rode out with the windlass.
Rita went forward and pressed the button on the windlass controller, and the windlass went crazy, staying on letting all the rode we had in the anchor locker.
I hit the windlass breaker to stop it.
We got the boat where we wanted and I troubleshot the windlass controller.
Opening up the box of the wired remote, it was soaking wet inside and the momentary switch had shorted out. There were burn marks on the PCB board. Unplug the wired remote and the windlass did nothing. Sure enough plug it back in, and the windlass was engaged in down!
I guess we were too liberal with water when we were cleaning the boat!
The chord for the remote was also TOAST:
Made a quick call to Marine Outfitters, and they had a replacement in stock!
AMAZING
I would pick it up tomorrow morning.
We had a relaxing night at anchor.
The following morning I had to manually haul up 100ft of 3/8" chain and a 33lb anchor using a winch handle. Took about half an hour.
Rita thought I was going to have a heart attack!
Don't want to do that again!
They say things happen for a reason.
Why did we want to practice anchoring one more time?
Glad it didn't happen the next day!
We just motored back in light winds to Trident.
We could smell the cormorants before we could see them:
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Trip Odometer: 8.7 miles
Trip Start: 09:01
Trip End: 10:55
Trip Duration: 00:01:54
Average Speed 4.5 knots
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