2023-12-17 Week of sitting on the boat with high winds.

We left Hope Town, and had a pleasant sail over to Marsh Harbor.  A whopping 7.5 miles.

Winds projected to build, so wanted a place with good protection, room to swing and good holding.

We have an issue with the dinghy chaps, that when we go a bit faster in the dink, the chaps trap water and funnel it inside the dinghy - not good.   So Monday morning Kris took the chaps off and did another modification. Then we took the dink for a motor into town to test it. 

Kris working on dinghy chaps

Much better, but still need to change a couple of things.  We got rid of our trash and went for a short walk in town then back to boat.

Then on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - we were on the boat.  Winds were NE 20 to 30 knots.  Cloudy and rainy.     Kris got out the Christmas decorations and built our "tree" and hung ornaments.

Green line wrapped around mast support post makes our tree.

On Saturday, winds were down to only 20, and the sun peeked out, so we went to town, got some groceries, and back by 10:30, before the rain came.   

Sunday, woke up to 30 to 40 knot winds.  A large catamaran had drug, and was pinned against a derelict dock.  We got in the dinghy, and went over to see if we could help them, but they were OK for now, and were going to wait for the winds to die down this afternoon and then try to move.  We got completely soaked going the 1000' from our boat to them in the dinghy.    With 30 plus knots of wind, the anchorage has 1' to 2' short chop.   We are quite comfortable on the boat, there is a bit of movement, but not bad at all, since we are facing into the wind and chop.

Pictures never do it justice, but there is a lot of wind and chop.

So what do we do when we cant get off the boat?  Well, Starlink has been great - we spend a lot of time on the computer.  Kris did some banking and paperwork clean up.  Then she started playing some computer games.  She likes to play Escape room type games with puzzles to solve.   

Dean has been alternating between reading and computer time.  It is easy to go down the YouTube rabbit hole and spend hours on pointless videos.  Dean also make brownies - which is what we did not need since we have been sitting on our butts for a week, but they do taste good. 😁 

Every night we have been watching a couple of episodes of "The Crown".  Good series so far, but now on the third season and it is getting a bit old.  Unfortunately, once we start a series and get this far into it, we feel compelled to finish it no matter how bad it gets.  We never said we were smart.