We anchored right at sunset. Red sky at night, sailors delight!
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I got the charcoal started and grilled steaks to go along with the salad and beer. Cindy and I were very comfortable eating down in Adoryble's small cozy cabin.
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The next morning, I cooked bacon and eggs on the butane stove in the cockpit while the sun came up.
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After breakfast, we raising the spinnaker because the whisper of a wind was out of the north. We sailed along for an hour at 1.5 knots (I got a hand-held GPS for Christmas.) After an hour, the wind died. I got the movie, Dead Calm, for Christmas. We were in our dead calm for 2 hours! The spinnaker just hung from the halyard. Finally, the wind came up but started shifting to the west, right on the nose, so we started beating. We could point high enough with the spinnaker, so we raised the jib and main. The wind finally settled out of the South South East, so we had a broad reach home - sailing all the way into Clear Lake - remember the fuel story.
The overnight trip was so much fun that we are going to call them Adoryble Adventures in the future.
Things we learned:
1. Take full fuel. Emergencies do happen.
2. Buy a spinnaker sock.
3. Join the two quarter berths with a removable piece of ply and a cushion to widen the sleeping arrangement. We are tall and wide...in the shoulders
FYI: We also installed the 18W solar panel. Awesome!
