It’s been raining off and on for several days, and the crew have been hunkered down below decks staring at screens and trying to keep busy. We’ve been in Grand Cay for almost nine days – twice as long as we’d planned – due to a few self-inflicted engine problems and some very unfortunate timing.[…]
In this episode of Close Hauled Together we go back to our training on Lake Lanier and focus on not hitting things. Avignon hits the water in Florida, we fix up some things around Avignon and we take our first dinghy expedition!!
It’s always the little things that hold you up, and in our case, this week, it was a single data cable – the one sends the signal from the masthead wind sensor to the onboard nav/comm network our instruments draw data from. All the key sensors and transducers plug into this network and speak the[…]