WhimSea's Log

Posted by Karen A. Brown

We had a rather bouncy evening at anchor as the wind gusts came over and around the island all night. We got up at 9:00 and determined we didn't need to be up, and so went back to bed for a few more hours. I love vacation.

While making coffee and muffins we watched a small drama unfold on Oak Island. The Island Princess, the island tour boat, was standing off and on near Little Manitou light for an awfully long time. Turning on the radio, we learned there was a Black Schooner at anchor with a man waving his red jacket frantically at the Princess. The coast guard vessel arrived and learned that they were out of battery power. They had food and water, but no juice. The Coast Guard called the man's father to deliver a battery to them and the Coast Guard would apparently be doing the delivery of said battery.

After a couple of hours we decided we would move on to Rocky Island for the evening. This would allow us to motor sail, pull out and re-roll the jenny and warm some water for showers. Unfortunately, we forgot that we needed to have the engine engaged to run the hot water through the engine.

We had a pretty strong wind, now more westerly, moving to Northwest. We hit 8.4 under the jenny alone. That's pretty amazing since we were pretty broad on to both the wind and the waves.

We arrived at Rocky and set the anchor and each had a bit of a shower, I say a bit because it was a little cold.

It's now 1600 hours, dinner is in the oven and martini's are being drunk. Treasure Island is being told to us (CD Player) and we've got only 81 nautical miles to Windigo tomorrow.