The biggest challenge so far after getting out of the narrow confines of the anchorage last night have been logs scattered randomly in our path. We hit a big one on the way out and never saw it. It first announced itself as a crash and banging down the bottom of the hull before for it finally spit out and never surfaced. It must be just hovering below the surface waiting to trip up unsuspecting boaters.
I see one trawler out here but there are probably many. They don't seem to use AIS the way most other commercial vessels do. But it's clear, no fog, so we can see them pretty well. I've divided our next eight hours to the next waypoint into four two hour shifts. I'm taking the first one while Chuck rests.
There isn't much to do on watch. The biggest job is to keep an eye out for any other boats, logs in the water, and make sure we're headed in the right direction. That last bit shouldn't change if the auto-helm is doing its job. In rougher water we might have to steer the boat, to give the auto-helm a break. It doesn't seem to be the case today. It's pretty smooth. So far.
The forecast is for it to become even calmer today before the wind will start to fill-in around 3 PM. That's about when we hope to be in the marina. It's supposed to blow pretty hard tomorrow. It's nice to be able to get out of it for that.
The skies behind us look dark and ominous. Up ahead there are blue skies and light fluffy clouds. It feels like sneaking out from under a rug.
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