Let there be Light – Salt Pond, Long Island, March 2, 2022

The good news is my resourceful Sailing Hubby was able to locate an inverter!  It is a 2,000 watt one, which is exactly what we had before, and it is on our way.  He found a used one online and it’s close in Georgetown!  Amazing.  We have cruiser friends there now, who offered to pick it up for us on their way to Long Island.  It’s a great coincidence and we are thrilled we do not have to go to Georgetown for that. 

Our friends showed up and hubby got right to work.  Now, since our inverter is placed in a very inopportune place, Ron moved it, so water is not an issue again anytime soon.  He spent several hours trying to locate the leak and never did find it.  It is hard to fix something you cannot find.    

Looks new, but does it work?

Hard to tell in photo but a night was needed relocate this.

The good news it works as promised so I got right to work making brownies and Ron made me homemade pizza!  

Mmmmmm free pizza

The last fun factoid was when we hit to beach, Ron wanted to Lobster a bit on the reefs we snorkeled yesterday, so I decided to walk the beach in search of my hamburger bean.  I found one!  I also found a purse bean too (whatever that it).  I am very excited and surprised as most people take several seasons to find one.  Very fun!

Now the bad news, we have a long list of more storms coming and we are truly over it.  The weather has been non-stop and even many of the sailing veterans we have met along the way have agreed this is unlike any other season they have had.  Global warming perhaps?  Anyway, we only have a couple choices, since there may be a 45-knot west wind coming.  We can go back to Georgetown (our” favorite place. “), or we can go to a marina.  The marina is sounding better and better all the time.  The worse news, there are only a couple marinas that can take a catamaran.  This should be fun and let the competition begin.

We are trying to avoid the anchor shuffle everyone does.  Whenever there is a storm coming, people pile into one of the protected anchorages and seem to anchor as close together as possible.  I don’t understand since when there is high clocking winds and the boat swings, it requires the anchor to reset.  This means you may need a bit of space to drag a little before the anchor resets.  

Ron and I are those people who are usually 5 minutes early for everything so when we see weather coming, we get to the protected bay early and like to pick our spot.  We are wondering if this is the best strategy since somehow after we are there a day or two, someone ALWAYS ends up coming in at dusk the night before the storm and anchoring 50 feet away (way too close).  This is exactly what happened to us last time we were in Georgetown.  Is it better for us to be the folks coming in last minute deciding how close we want to get to someone, even if we don’t have the best anchor spots to pick from?  Time will tell but we are considering a change in strategy.