It's continued to blow through the anchorage since early yesterday. It let up about noon, giving us time to let out more chain to give us more spring room as the swells slammed into our bow. We had planned on attending the pot luck last night but Dragon(our outboard) decided to not start. Not sure why but we took it in an omen that we should stay right where we were and enjoy a "quiet" night aboard. We positioned Puff at the stern and yanked off Dragon --keep in mind that there were three foot swells coming through the anchorage at the time--so yanked was the right work. We hauled Puff along the starboard side and hauled her up on her block and tackle to the deck. We tried to turn her over so we could strap her down but she was having none of that. I guess we have developed another leak in her since when we pulled the cork out that goes to the fiberglass floor section, gallons and gallons of water streamed out the hole. Another project!!! Where is the hole? The fiberglass looks intact so I'll have to do some hunting I guess. As it is, poor Puff slowly takes on water when ever she is just sitting waiting to get used. We have to pump her out every time we use her. I bought some hyphalon material and glue so I can fix it when we get some where for a few days. It takes three days for it to set up so it will get taken care of eventually. Once drained and flipped, we strapped her down and went below for a "quiet" dinner with the wind howling outside.

It continued through the night and according to one of the boats here, clocked in at 37 knots about 0300. One boat dragged his anchor about 80 feet before it reset. He's going diving on it some time this morning and is going to put out a second anchor. As I said in the last post, one boat broke their anchor. It didn't come loose, it broke along the shaft. They are lucky it happened while there was still some Sun shine or the outcome could have been much worse.

Just about everyone is sitting still for the day playing games or doing some projects. At least one person is going by dingy to one of the other boats to play "Scrabble". I expect that they will show up quite drenched since the swells are still running in the three foot level in the anchorage. I spent the night "sleeping" in the main salon so I could hear the anchor drag alarm should it go off. While our DuoGen wind generator on the stern is one of the quietest in the industry, at 30 knots, she was still making enough noise that there was no way anyone was going to hear the alarm should it go off. Last night, all was quiet, at least alarm wise so that was a blessing. We were not moving!!!

So that's the way it is here at Suwarrow and according to the weather forecasters, it will continue this way for the next two days, maybe longer. The swells outside the reef are expected to grow toward the 20 foot level by Friday so most of us will just stay put till it calms down. At least the sane ones will stay put. No reason the endanger yourselves and your boat by going out in those kind of seas if you don't have to. As far as net traffic goes, we haven't heard of any boats that are in transit here. I'd hate to be out in this stuff. It would be a miserable ride!