It was a beautiful morning when I woke up, but only little breeze in the bay. J's fingers seemed to stop bleeding. Around 8am after breakfast, we motored the boat out of the bay, and wind began to fill in the sails. It was not fast but quite stable, there were no waves, so boat was not rolling at all, then you can enjoy the picturesque coastal rocks and have a cup of tea.
Passing a water way at noon, current was rushing out, and there was a resistance of 1.6 knots. We were pushed by wind from behind but against the tide so we could not go faster. In the afternoon, near Supply Bay in Townshead, we hesitated whether to get in or move on, because the current resistance weakened and wind gradually picked up. We didn’t want to waste the pleasant condition so we decided to go to a further island ‘Marble Island’. It’ll save us 20 nautical miles tomorrow.
In the evening, I cooked potato rice with the salty and spicy muddy burrito from the day before yesterday. Just sauté onion and green pepper to make fragrant, add diced potato and tomato to stir fry, then add the leftover burrito and half-cooked rice with water, cover and simmer until rice is cooked. When it was cooked, it turned into a magical result. What was brown and sticky became delicious, and it tasted a bit like curry rice.
Wind gradually weakened after dinner, and it seemed to decide not helping us anymore, but fortunately, the current continued to push us forward.
There was no moon but very starry with long Milky Way, so it was not totally dark, can still see the silhouette of the islands vaguely. Not far from the destination island, wind almost stopped. The tide came from the righthand side and pushed us a little bit, so we had to start the engine. There were boat lights near the island, they looked like navigation lights at night. (It was discovered the next morning that it was a house. Who would live on this remote island?)
At 9:30pm we were in the bay and anchored, a five-meter tidal change to allowed for. We sailed 42 nautical miles today.
Passing a water way at noon, current was rushing out, and there was a resistance of 1.6 knots. We were pushed by wind from behind but against the tide so we could not go faster. In the afternoon, near Supply Bay in Townshead, we hesitated whether to get in or move on, because the current resistance weakened and wind gradually picked up. We didn’t want to waste the pleasant condition so we decided to go to a further island ‘Marble Island’. It’ll save us 20 nautical miles tomorrow.
In the evening, I cooked potato rice with the salty and spicy muddy burrito from the day before yesterday. Just sauté onion and green pepper to make fragrant, add diced potato and tomato to stir fry, then add the leftover burrito and half-cooked rice with water, cover and simmer until rice is cooked. When it was cooked, it turned into a magical result. What was brown and sticky became delicious, and it tasted a bit like curry rice.
Wind gradually weakened after dinner, and it seemed to decide not helping us anymore, but fortunately, the current continued to push us forward.
There was no moon but very starry with long Milky Way, so it was not totally dark, can still see the silhouette of the islands vaguely. Not far from the destination island, wind almost stopped. The tide came from the righthand side and pushed us a little bit, so we had to start the engine. There were boat lights near the island, they looked like navigation lights at night. (It was discovered the next morning that it was a house. Who would live on this remote island?)
At 9:30pm we were in the bay and anchored, a five-meter tidal change to allowed for. We sailed 42 nautical miles today.
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