We got under way at about 6:30, still dark, got to watch the sun come up, and had to deal with some current at the mouth of Mag Bay. Would have been nice if the timing had worked out to give us a push instead of holding us back. We got out 3 miles and dumped the holding tank, then started the water maker and a load of laundry. We have 24 hours to go on this heading. There is no wind (<5 knots, from the port bow), so we have the mainsail up and are motor sailing. We are going about 6.5 knots speed over ground. Listening to Christmas music. Renee’ is napping.
We are still motor sailing. True wind is abut 12 knots, but is from directly astern. Apparent wind is about 7 knots. This is not enough to move our boat. We have gone about 65 miles roughly 1/3 of the way. It is hot, the sea is fairly flat. Pretty dull stuff today.
Well, a bit later, as in after dark. I was getting ready for a nap, we were having issues with the radio, Bluetooth, and cell phones, and so I rebooted the radio. So far so good. Unfortunately I dropped my life jacket/harness by the DC circuit breaker panel and …. bumped the breaker for the chart plotter/radar. OOPS! No control, about 15 minutes later, chart plotter/radar and auto pilot are communicating again, and we are back on course. Renee’ is driving/watching etc. I lay down and take a nap.
A couple hours later, I am driving and Renee’ is sleeping. I take a look at the depth gauge, we are 18+ miles off shore, the chart says 2700 – 3000 feet. BUT!!! Our depth garage is at 50 feet and gradually getting lower. I called Renee’ back on deck to help me watch as we slowed down to about 2.5 knots, and the lowest depth I saw was 10.8 feet. The swells there were pretty strong. We turned west and went slow and eventually got back into deep water.
A couple of hours later, Renee’ was driving and I had just gone down to sleep, and we repeated the previous paragraph, with the shallowest being mid 20’s. This one was on the chart, but said that it was about 55 feet deep at the shallowest! We were originally going to miss that one, but when we changed course for the first one, wound up going right over this one.
We listened to a sermon from North Coast given by Chris Brown on the rich young ruler, the blind beggar and the chief tax collector. Bottom line out of all this, we are called to be servants, not to be served.