Weather: Sunny and warm. Winds: S 10 swirling around the islands. Seas: <1ft.
Departed around 0920 via the north channel to Bodega Anchorage. The narrow-ish channel with the cliffs was particularly fun! Once into the anchorage, the winds picked up so up went the main and screacher. Had a nice sail to the Okisollo Channel where we sailed back and forth, mostly east and west waiting for slack current at the west end of Hole In The Wall. Lost patience again and sailed into Hole In The Wall at nearly slack. Was able to sail for the first mile. By then, the current had changed to with us and it was an uneventful motor through the pass.
Rounding Bernard Point, the north end of Maurelle Isand, and entering Calm Channel, the winds again picked up and we made 8-9kts on a SE beat to Raza Passage, between Raza Island and the main land.
Winds were off and on from then on. Motored along Raza Island, sailed across Deer Passage, motored past Connis Point, north side of West Redonda Island. Winds picked up again further into Pryce Channel and we made 7kts for the last 4nm before the turn into Waddington Channel. Was able to sail into Waddington and the first mile! Winds were then in the face and we motored to the entrance of Roscoe Bay.
Though Freestyle started behind us, motoring, they passed us early on in the Okislollo, arriving about 45min ahead of us at the entrance to Roscoe Bay where they waited for high tide and sure clearance into the bay. We went ahead and called depths to them and the immediately followed.
We dropped anchor in the bay and Kelly stayed aboard while I assisted with Freestyle. Bit of a goat rope this time as we were trying to set up on the north side for better solar charging. First spot, vicinity of the ruins, was too shallow. Ended up vicinity of the point on the south side, vicinity of our previous location. Once Freestyle was tied, went back aboard, pulled the anchor and rafted at 1600.
Project
Ran the watermaker for about and hour, drawing 8.2amps while making 7gal/hr...4x the rated 6L/hr. Kind of shocked. Tested and tasted and all was good. I have learned it is the difference in salinity. The rated flow is for the saltiest of waters. With all the rain, our water is far less salty so the reverse osmosis does not have to work as hard. Need to reposition the watermaker controls...and perhaps create a new through hull. Currently, I've tapped into the cooling water through hull, limiting watermaking to during sailing only. Further, the controls are in an inconvenient spot, making it difficult to use the device.
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