Yesterday morning had a crisp chill in the air and the temperature in the morning was around 40 degrees. We haven’t harvested the garden yet, so we were a little worried about the plants wilting. As the sun came up it warmed the cockpit to 80 degrees. In the cockpit […]
Williwaw
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Wide Bay is truly a blow hole. As we approached Wide Bay around 9 or 10 am there was no wind, literally no wind, glass calm water, and not a ripple anywhere indicating there was wind. The temperature read 60 degrees, and not only did we have the scenic rugged […]
We couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day, well, that isn’t exactly true as we wish we had some wind, but beggers can’t be choosers. The outside temperature not in the sun is around 65 degrees but in the sun is closer to 70 to 75, even 80 degrees […]
This must be a real vacation for Sara because she has not had to cook in two days (well maybe breakfast), but no seriously! Wade gets the triple C award (which is better than a three star Michelin rating). As normally a C would be an average grade, but here […]
Squash zone. A squash zone is exactly as it sounds, we are smooched between a high pressure system and a low pressure system. As you can imagine the winds have been high (35-45 knots) and our anchorage a bit bumpy from the white caps; although we are anchored less than […]
Today looked like an ideal day for sailing. The sky was blue. The waves were small. A steady wind speed of 15 to 20 knots . . . that is until we would get williwaws from the steep mountain valleys funneling wind from the northwest. Reading the water is one […]
We survived! The NOAA weather forecast could not have been any better. Around 10 am yesterday it was like a wall of wind hit us from the west. Most of the day was 30 to 40 knots of wind, and peaked for a couple hours of sustained 40 to 45 […]
We hid away in our little cove fully protected from the flag (50 knots) of wind predicted, or so we thought! The US Coast Pilot 9 stated Alpine Cove was “An excellent anchorage near the entrance in 12 to 15 fathoms, mud bottom, and sheltered from all winds and seas.” […]
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