The fog arrived today after many days of hot sunny weather. It's heavy, dense and very wet and it's so cold. It's 53 deg f, which is 11.9 deg c and the wind chill makes it very unsavory. This morning Maynard was up at 5.30 am in order to switch off our anchor light. It was foggy and blowing 18 - 20+ knots from the east instead of the 5 - 10 knots we'd seen in the forecast. Rockland Harbor is exposed to the east so we're usually not here in an easterly particularly in any reinforced wind. However, we have ordered a few things and are just waiting for them to arrive. The first thing he noticed was that the No. 22 light was on up in the bridge. Some lights aren't too critical but No. 22 is the High Water Engine Room Bilge Forward light. What the hey! The alarm hadn't sounded because someone, probably (certainly) me, had cleaned the bridge recently and flicked it off by mistake so we hadn't heard an alarm. Maynard took off down to the engine room at 5.31 am, checked all the bilges and didn't find any water. What a relief. It seems that the moisture from all the fog and humidity must have caused a sensor to go off in the engine room bilge and once he'd found the offender, the light went off again. We never have water in the bilge. It is bone dry and every drop is traced down diligently if it dares to appear.

We are anchored with what looks like a 49ft Marlow called Gale Warning but as yet haven't had a chance to meet them. It's so foggy we can't tell exactly. We last saw them going past us at a distance at Orient, New York a few weeks ago. They too are socked in in the fog probably catching up on many jobs as we are. We also have a 56 meter superyacht nearby but they are hard to see in the fog.


Maynard went to town this afternoon once the wind died down in the general direction of the shore even though he couldn't quite see where he was going. The replacement Raymarine instrument is the ST70+ which displays the depth and speed data throughout the system along with a host of other parameters including sea and air temperature. He installed it this afternoon and we now have all systems running again. It has been a good productive day even though we can't see squat.

(Title of blog compliments of the Captain who took an extremely short walk on deck before scurrying back into the warmth of the salon with the above words.)