It is sunny and feels hot today, with little breeze from the south. We haven't felt hot in a few weeks. Of course, this anchorage is not protected from the south, so we are all pointing toward open ocean, instead of nearby land. The day to come here was today - still a motor, but a quiet one. Let the weather tell you your schedule - don't force it. But make sure you pay attention to the weather so you are where you need to be for protection when the winds kick up. For example, being here in strong southwest or west winds would be bad.

There is a cruisers net here at Thompson Bay. Roger listened in, and someone was having charging/battery issues, which is a death knell for cruisers. So Roger loaned them one of his two generators. He then intended to make water using his other generator. You can guess what happened next. He yanked on the pull cord and it parted without starting the generator. So then he had a generator problem. He started taking the front apart to get to the spool. Tari finally got tired of our issues with doing that and brought us a YouTube video showing how to replace the pull cord - duhh. And of course, that involved taking apart the entire generator, including the four feet - everything except what we were trying to take apart. Tari always makes amazing dinners, but this time there was even an amazing lunch - pizza, to give us a break from our generator battle.

Using a bucket and rag, I washed down the dodger and all the stainless today to get the layer of salt off. Roger made five gallons of fresh water for me to do that. The solar panels are overhead, but even being six feet above the cockpit floor, they were still coated with salt.

The winds look interesting the next few days, so we are going to have to figure out where we can go and where we want to be.