St Simon’s Island
06 February 2022
• St Simon’s Island, Georgia
by John Singleton • Still cold wet and windy
As expected, today was a cold, wet and wind day. The anchor held well. John checked and adjusted it at midnight- around high tide and monitored the anchor watch but all was good. We seem to have a lot of noise when wind and tide are in the same direction, as the boat oscillates from side to side but it is quite quiet when wind and tide are in opposite directions as the boat seems to stay in a more stable position. So we had a good 6 hours with no creeks and bangs!
Neither of could bare to venture out of our warm beds before about 0930. It was a cold night and we had no way to heat the boat and no point leaving anchor before the tide was closer to high tide at midday. Eventually hunger drove us to brave the cold, John cooked eggs and fried potatoes and tomatoes for brunch. We had our hot drinks laced with whisky to help warm us up :-), got our heavy weather gear on and lifted anchor. As the weather was so bad we decided to head for marina on St Simon’s Island that we were aiming for yesterday. So just a few hours under motor. We got settled in the marina, had much needed showers and started drying the boat out. Time for some relaxation, admin and planning.
Our batteries don’t seem to be charging under motor an we seem to have only about 10-11 volts when the engine is running and just the instruments turned on. There is always something to fix !!!
Fan belt is correct tension, alternator is running and no obvious draw on the DC circuit. Maybe time for an electrician soon. We have a little generator we can use to charge the batteries but it is a pain having to use it every time we anchor etc.
Anyway, enough technical details for today !!!
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