{"id":673,"date":"2006-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=673"},"modified":"2009-04-15T08:58:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T13:58:12","slug":"s_logs-dashew-dashew291","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-dashew291\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Time Through"},"content":{"rendered":"
Return to Seymour Narrows – passing through in a day where you could easily spend a whole summer.<\/div>\n

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There are a lot more boats out, probably for a last fling before school starts or jobs beckon. We’re guessing this boat has very experienced owners. The details of how she is set up tell you that. <\/p>\n

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The on-deck pilot house is a great feature in this part of the world. And check out the mid-deck awning. That gives them both shade and protection from rain.<\/p>\n

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Here is another view of the awning.<\/p>\n

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Another clue that shows experience. Each of these small opening ports has a rain and spray deflector.<\/p>\n

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The mizzen mast is pretty busy. But all of this stuff makes sense. The permanent wind generator is a nice feature. The only negative is mast harmonics. The hollow aluminum mast can act as a noise amplifier if the windmill isn’t properly isolated. We used to think it was silly to have two radars. But after cruising in this part of the world we can see where it would be nice to have on on short range and the second on a longer range.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of which, here is a log that will show up well on radar, as long as there isn’t too much sea running.<\/p>\n

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The radar image is shown above. On the right side of the monitor, centered, is the zoomed area ahead of the boat at a magnification of three. This log and other debris in the area is clearly visible.<\/p>\n

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Some time back we wrote about debris and the fact that timber occasionally can be found hiding inside of kelp and seaweed. We took the photo above in a current shear line. There are several large chunks of trees in this mess.<\/p>\n

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The debris line shows up well on the quarter mile range, and even better in the zoomed area of the screen. If we were faced with working through this mess at night we could probably do so, at reduced speed of course.<\/p>\n

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We’re seeing a lot of sailboats with pilot houses today. This looks to be a combo saloon and wheel house. As there are no sails on the booms and no roller furling our guess is that this is a new boat, maybe out for its first cruise (or the owners are realistic about the time they’ll spend sailing in this part of the world).<\/p>\n

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There are still a few folks who love sailing whether or not it is an efficient means of getting from one anchorage to another. This boat is headed for "the Race" running before a nice northerly breeze, with some positive current to hurry them along.<\/p>\n

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The permanent roof over the cockpit and roll up sides may be ugly, but if you’re sitting in the cockpit, dry, and out of the wind, you won’t be thinking about how this looks.<\/p>\n

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One of the cool things about cruising in this part of the world is working the schedule around the tides and currents. It is usually possible to have favorable currents on each leg – it just takes a little patience with planning. That’s a five-knot push shown above. There are 16.5 knots on the GPS while the engines are turning over at 1900 RPM and showing 11.5 knots on the B and G transducer.<\/p>\n

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There are a variety of ways to get tidal and current data. You can use software – that’s the Nobeltec current planner above – or printed tide and current tables. In this case we’re headed through Seymour Narrows with 3 to 4 knots of current pushing us.<\/p>\n

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As we were getting set up for the Narrows we noticed a large cruise ship behind us. We set them up as an ARPA target, shown with their course as a true vector above, and then looked up their speed (13.5 knots). This was enough to let us know we’d be through well before the cruise ship became an issue.<\/p>\n

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To make matters more interesting there was a tug with tow heading towards us. They are shown towards the top, center of the screen, with a small square around the target. ARPA is now set to relative vectors, so we have an updated indication of the crossing situation between us and the tug and tow.<\/p>\n

Assuming that the tug would make a wide turn, we moved all the way over to the port (east) side of the channel, to give them maximum room.<\/p>\n

We’re going to hang out in Desolation Sound for a few days, and if the water is warm enough, go for a swim, check the bottom and props, and clean the water line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Return to Seymour Narrows – passing through in a day where you could easily spend a whole summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}