Comes around, Goes around has been sitting in a slip for the last couple weeks because I needed to work on the trailer. It seemed like a good excuse to sail more 🙂 no set up or take down at end of the day, just throw off the lines and head out.
I was really wanting to get out for a while so me and Patty took the boat out friday evening and motored down the inland waterway to Bird Island and anchored out. 🙂 I hung a small coleman lantern from the rigging for a anchor light ( note this doesn’t work very well as it tends to go out after a few hours. It works good for light while your up though.) A two burner propane stove in the back of the cockpit works great 🙂 hot tea and chocolate on demand 🙂
I don’t recomend anchoring for the night on the back side of Bird Island, it gets a little bumpy in as light a boat as the santana 21 is, also the current is pretty good there and the santana likes to sail at anchor. On our way out we saw a couple sailboats anchored back in the marsh and along the channel back torward Calabash, NC from the four way crossing near Little River Inlet and Bird Island. I think next time we will try back in there. It looked much quieter.
2 pm in the morning finally saw me crawling out and changing several things.
First I moved some weight to the back of the boat, me and Patty’s weight in the V-berth made the aft hull almost come out of the water and all the little ripples were slapping up under the side of the hull. It was very noisy.
The second thing was to tie a line from the rear docking cleat to about 15 feet down the anchor line from the bow so that the boat was riding at a much greater angle to the current. This minimized the sailing motion back and forth that the boat was doing because of wind and current.
Third the anchor light (coleman lantern) had gone out so I re-light it
Crawled back to bed and put the screens back over the hatch where I had taken them down to go out.
Around 5 pm I was woken up by a fisherman that was gigging in shallow water near the shore for flounder I think. Lots of spotlights and moving slowly along the shore.
All in all it was fun but not very restfull for a first night staying on the Comes around, Goes around. The morning was beautifull at 7 or so when we got up. Hot chocolate made we upped anchor and slowly motored back to the marina. (Anchor marina is about 5 or 6 miles up the inland waterway to the south from Bird Island where we anchored.)
Pattys daughter who was looking after the dogs disapeared so we had to head back and take care of them. 🙂 Safe arrival at the slip and dogs mightly relieved (litterally) to see us back at her house.
Scott
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