We woke up at 5:30 this morning planning to set sail for Isabella. Sadly we saw less than 4 knots of wind out of the SSW. With the NW setting current that effectively put Isabella on our nose. We’ve decided to wait until this afternoon and sail overnight. If we can’t get to Isabella by tomorrow afternoon we’ll motor the balance of the distance. We’ve done way too much motoring in the last few months and I feel it is time to act like a sailboat again.
We had planned to do some minor repairs in Isabella. I’ll do some of them today while it is calm here. I plan to switch on of the port bilge pumps and replace the fresh water foot pump in the galley. Both are working but both leak. The foot pump leaks water into the port bilge and the leak in the port bilge hinders pump out. We have a nice clean bilge but that’s at the expense of the pump going off every few hours. Time to get busy.
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