Oh, the weather outside is frightful!

Daysail (and swimming) 

Lk St Clair

Thursday, August 26

93°, 91 % humidity.  Seems like a good day to be in the water. (not much wind for sailing in the afternoon.

We anchored off Strawberry Island, and floated around until we were actually chilled.  We scrubbed the bottom of the boat a little, but it wasn't in terrible great need, and we're not racers to care about a 0.1 kph difference in hull speed.


better day to be in the water than on the water


Might as well make ourselves useful

or playful....

Spying his quarry, the intrepid hunter stalks his prey, harpoon at the ready.

Now he has it in his sights




For those who don't understand this sequence, harpooning is a traditional Greenland Qajaqing skillset that we practice at Qajaq Training Camp, which should have been this week. 




Once we finally cooled off,  and with the wind picking up, we set sail.  Unfortunately, as we were leaving we hit bottom just a little. Sandy bottom, Probably nothing to worry about, so we put it out of our minds and enjoyed a nice sunset sail.



Shadow in the sky

Now this is a cool thing I've never seen before.  I thought it was odd that there was a cloud formation with a perfectly straight edge in the sky.



Turns out it was a shadow of the cloud at the base the picture, and the sun (now below the horizon) was casting a shadow upwards into the sky.

As we sailed into the darkness (reluctant to pass up the cooler weather and perfect conditions), we noticed that our bilge pump was running unusually often.  Concerned about hitting bottom earlier, the Captain proceeded to toss the cabin looking for the source of water into the bilge.



It turned out to be a false alarm, just some weird feedback loop keeping the pump turning over.   Of course we still have to clean up the mess.... tomorrow....










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