We had heavy rain, thunder and lightning around 0800hrs, but l am glad to say it didn’t last long.
On Saturday at 1030hrs which was about 2.5hrs after low water l pulled up Elektra’s anchor and Vicki turned Elektra towards New Grimsby Sound south entrance. We motored north across St Mary’s Roads to our way point. We were quite early but other yachts were following us. When we reached our way point, we slowed right down to 3kts and motored in. We of course didn’t know what depth we had as our new instruments, still weren’t working but as l have said in the past 2″ under the keel is floating, and floating is floating!
Only by looking back and watching the yachts behind, could we tell there wasn’t much depth! They slowed to an almost stop.
Anyway we continued on and turned into Green Bay, found a spot just west of Charlie and Jackie on Tantrum who we had met last season. I dropped anchor and 10m of chain, walked back to the cockpit and put Elektra in reverse, when her bow turned towards the anchor, l knew the anchor had bit. Then l looked for transits and could see Elektra was moving forward if anything, so not dragging. At high water we had just over 2m under the keels, we would touch bottom at about 2.7m with low water being 1.3m we would be on the bottom between 1730hrs and 2230hrs. But with strong west and southwest winds forecasted for the next 7 days, if you are aground it’s impossible to drag anchor.
What followed was a lovely summer’s day, which we lazed away in Elektra’s cockpit.
Love Sailing 