It was a pretty nasty night, VERY windy and it’s even worse this morning. Massive gusts, big rain squalls, it rains hard off and on and the mountains to the west are socked in.

Perfect. We’re tired after a long couple of days and a rainy morning is just what the doctor ordered.

We both keep an eye on the old cat beside us. It’s moored so doesn’t move much while we have miles of chain out and swing fairly close sometimes, within about 30 feet or so. I’m sure we would only swing in front of it but neither of us like it. When the weather clears a bit after breakfast I flag down a PAYS guy and he takes us over to a mooring ball. We anchor in nice weather but it is still gusting very hard from time-to-time. 40+ kts? Not sure.

Still, it’s a lazy day, we never actually leave the boat, I took the dinghy down but put it back up that night without having used it. I play around with some of the Raymarine systems. Looking at the wind, water temp and speed meters. I’m pretty sure our water speed/temp transducers aren’t working or aren’t calibrated properly. I think the water speed we get is calculated by the GPS because the instrument that shows it always displays zero speed and our plotter is always warning us that the water temperature is over 40 degrees C! I don’t think so.

So let me see, wind direction is wrong, water speed doesn’t work, temperature doesn’t work. I’m going to dive on the speed transducer to see if the wheel is stuck. If not then we will replace it next year when we haul out.

The good news is that we may have found the source of our sea water ingress. We accidentally had a bit of seawater come in when we were sailing. It came UP through the toilet via the outflow. I had shut the intake through-hull before we left but it flowed up into the toilet and overflowed a bit while sailing. I closed that while underway and cleaned up most of the water. Pretty sure water shouldn’t flow that way so maybe that is the problem. I closed it right at the through hull, then dried up the bilge. So far, almost no new water in the bilge!

We had planned to go to the PAYS bbq but by 6 pm the weather is very bad and we have very little interest in trying to land our dinghy at the crappy PAYS dock in this weather. It’s actually a very solid structure with a low side to make dinghy transit easier but it’s always crowded and the swell is massive, very bad close to shore. Last time we were here our motor cover got cracked from slipping underneath and getting banged around there. Sasha from PAYS reminded me the next day we could have taken one of the PAYS water taxis, probably free, but we didn’t think of that.

Instead, Christy makes dehydrated chilly and we stay home, warm and dry.

But at night the boat is rocking very hard. The noise in the front cabin is too loud to sleep there so Christy goes to the aft cabin, I sleep on the couch. That after checking everything is OK with our mooring lines and the mooring itself.

Mooring is great for not moving around much but now we’re relying on their mooring and our mooring lines. Our anchor is technically safer (at least in my mind) but you can’t anchor where everyone else is moored.