Spring 2019 - Lyall Harbour to Montague
21.04.19 // Categories: Spring 2019
Sunday April 21, 2019
Anchors up and we headed out of Lyall around 10:30. A little lumpy but not too bad. Ocean Flyer was going to do a compass calibration but decided against it since it was just a little to lumpy. Arrived at Montague around noon, grabbed a mooring ball, and had a little lunch. While we had lunch, the wind really came up a lot. We were going to leave Bella on the boat while we went for a walk, but decided that with the wind the way it was, she would probably not be all that happy, and we would worry about her so along she came.
We motored over to Ocean Flyer at idle to pick them up to go for a walk along Gray's Peninsula in the park. The wind appeared to be coming from the south inside Montague and so we wondered what the north side would look like for anchoring. It was a little better but not great.
It turns out there was more West in the wind than anything and there were several spots on the walk that was really windy. Lot's of campers in the park, probably because of the Easter long weekend.
Back to the dingy and we crawled over to the Marina dock at idle but folks still got a little wet as it was still windy and lumpy. The marina was closed which we knew, but the restaurant was open and we checked that it would be open tomorrow (12-4). Lot's of people around kayaking - too bad there was so much wind for them!
Back to our respective boats for an hour or so of napping and working on the computer. Then we brought Spaghetti dinner over to Ocean Flyer and then watched Aquaman on the "big screen". Probably would have been even worse on the little screen
As we were heading over to OF for dinner, the outboard motor decided to not start right away. Same problem as Greg was looking into the day before we left. Kept running fine though afterwards and we made it to OF. But on the way back to SB late that night, it wouldn't start without a bunch of throttle. Greg kept up the speed on the way back so it couldn't cut out, but just as we were sliding into the stern, he (of course) had to let it go and it completely cut out and we just drifted into the back of SB. So the outboard wasn't really fixed after all. Tomorrow's problem.
Anchors up and we headed out of Lyall around 10:30. A little lumpy but not too bad. Ocean Flyer was going to do a compass calibration but decided against it since it was just a little to lumpy. Arrived at Montague around noon, grabbed a mooring ball, and had a little lunch. While we had lunch, the wind really came up a lot. We were going to leave Bella on the boat while we went for a walk, but decided that with the wind the way it was, she would probably not be all that happy, and we would worry about her so along she came.
We motored over to Ocean Flyer at idle to pick them up to go for a walk along Gray's Peninsula in the park. The wind appeared to be coming from the south inside Montague and so we wondered what the north side would look like for anchoring. It was a little better but not great.
It turns out there was more West in the wind than anything and there were several spots on the walk that was really windy. Lot's of campers in the park, probably because of the Easter long weekend.
Back to the dingy and we crawled over to the Marina dock at idle but folks still got a little wet as it was still windy and lumpy. The marina was closed which we knew, but the restaurant was open and we checked that it would be open tomorrow (12-4). Lot's of people around kayaking - too bad there was so much wind for them!
Back to our respective boats for an hour or so of napping and working on the computer. Then we brought Spaghetti dinner over to Ocean Flyer and then watched Aquaman on the "big screen". Probably would have been even worse on the little screen
As we were heading over to OF for dinner, the outboard motor decided to not start right away. Same problem as Greg was looking into the day before we left. Kept running fine though afterwards and we made it to OF. But on the way back to SB late that night, it wouldn't start without a bunch of throttle. Greg kept up the speed on the way back so it couldn't cut out, but just as we were sliding into the stern, he (of course) had to let it go and it completely cut out and we just drifted into the back of SB. So the outboard wasn't really fixed after all. Tomorrow's problem.