We got a chance to listen to the weather on the SSB radio this morning. There's a large system in Northern California that is creating all sorts of wind down here. Until that system moves out, it will stay a windy 20-25 knots from the NW (the direction we're trying to go). We don't want to travel into that sort of wind. It's really tiresome (hard on us) and also hard on the boat. We're not on a time schedule, so why rush in nasty weather? The wind is supposed to continue until Sunday. Sunday it is predicted to clear up to 10-15 knots. So, our tentative leave day from this area will be Sunday. Of course, the forecast can change at any time, so those plans are written in sand at low tide. We also got some weather from Cory's Dad and he confirmed that there is a system out there and, it's creating these strong winds.

So with all this time on the boat and nothing much to do, we calculated our fuel economy last night. It looks like if we get the same fuel economy for the rest of the way to Turtle Bay, our 1/2 point, we can make it to Turtle with 7 gallons of fuel to spare. Yes, we know, that's not much fuel left. So, since we have the time, we may take the big boat over to Mag Bay which is 15 miles from here to get fuel from the port captain. He'll get it for us in San Carlos, which is a port of entry. It's 30 miles up a tricky channel to San Carlos, so we'd rather not take our boat in there. Also, the fuel docks large and are for commercial boats, so it's likely to scratch the hull (the boat itself), and the fuel pumps will probably flow at a higher rate than we can take on.

It's a chilly 65 degrees inside the boat this morning. We haven't had these sorts of low temperatures in quite sometime. Looks like we'll be bundling up from here on out. At least I should say, I will be bundling up from here on out. I'm already starting to feel signs of a sore throat coming on, and I don't want it to get any worse.