Kaimusailing

Now that my Coleman Camp Grill was operational I could grill a steak on it. I was duped into buying a family pack of 2 steaks, “manager special”, t-bone, actual price was around $6.91/lb., normal price $12.99/lb. Great bargain? Not. My favorite steak, NY Strip, was on sale at $6.99/lb. and boneless. Nevertheless I grilled one of the t-bones and smoked up the cabin. Good nutrition.
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A new problem arose. Roughrider Lynn was back aboard her steel sailboat in Urbana, VA, and now wanted to move it to Crisfield. I agreed to help her, but I wanted at least one other person on board. She seemed unable to come up with crewmate.
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I did the route planning and it came out to almost exactly 50 miles, mostly a NE course. I made a light list, bearing and distance of the legs, and then realized we were in a protracted NE weather flow, we were stuck between a high pressure cell and a low that would arrive on Memorial Day weekend. Anyone who has tried to drive a boat against the Bay chop and into a wind of more than 10 knots has found that usually speed has to be reduced to deal with hobby horsing and spray. The end result is much longer time spent bashing into the wind and waves. In our case the forecast is gusting up to 25 knots for the rest of the week.
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As is usual, the NOAA marine forecast is overly daunting. We were going to wait for the weekend, but the wind had abated by Wednesday. In the morning Lynn called and was emotional and weeping, she is going through the grieving process. Just a half hour later she called all happy and reporting the engine was running, the fuel was declared suitable by a good mechanic. I asked her to run it about a half hour under load, that is, in gear, but not break any mooring lines. She also reported the VHF radio was operational. I had a handheld VHF that I would bring along anyway.
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While route planning with OpenCPN I neglected to test the GPS dongle, labeled “GPS/GLONASS U-blox7”, and now I tried it out. I have numerous notes on how to get it going. This time I found that selecting and deleting any connections in the tool section of OpenCPN, and then adding connection which brings up a menu page. The connection is network, gpsd protocol, address 0.0.0.0. Other schemes that I may have posted might have been using Navigatrix as the operating system and OpenCPN operates a little bit differently depending on what Navigatrix distribution you are using. This time I am using a Ubuntu operating system with OpenCPN downloaded and installed from the repository.
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The image is a screen shot of the route planned using OpenCPN.