11 February 2012

New Anchorage

As I mentioned yesterday, we re-anchored just south of the causeway so we'd be in its lee today when the winds picked up. The front blew through last night, and the sky began to clear as the sun came up this morning. The north-east winds are slowly picking up, but haven't really gotten much over 15 knots yet.

However, the skies have completely cleared and it's turning into a beautiful day. I'm sure the wind and waves will continue to build, but right now it's perfect -- a cool breeze, blue sky, and a bright warm sun.

My GPS indicates we may have dragged anchor a little to the north-east last night before the wind shifted 180 degrees, but everything seems fine now. I'll check again later today as the winds pick up to make sure we stay put. We might have a fouled anchor chain keeping us from swinging further to the south-west. If that's the case, we may drag later, which will necessitate re-anchoring.

I may put out a second anchor just in case, but will wait till this afternoon before making any decisions, after all, it could just be a display issue with the iphone chart plotter.

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