Day 77 A lazy day

We sit here waiting.  I know it is the middle of July, but you could see your breath this evening when we were out on the dock!!!   I know it's hot back in Denver but I'd love to just see 70 degrees!

A 54 foot Hunter sailboat came in late this afternoon from down South so we stopped in to see them and swap stories.  They had motored all the way up the coast.  The seas weren't bad just they had to fight the North winds.  They are planning on setting out tomorrow and motoring more up the coast.  They were surprised at how much wind we have been having.  They're from Canada and want to get home.

I spent the afternoon working on navigation programs.  I'm still trying to get our GPS and AIS systems working with our Max Sea program but they just won't play well together.  I try some more tomorrow.  They work fine with my other navigation programs.

The wire I ordered to connect the wind instrument to the autopilot should be in tomorrow.  I'll be running it down into the bilge and over to the engine room from the navigation station.  A simple connection of six wires.  Then set up the autopilot so it can receive the information.  With this connection, we can program the boats autopilot to respond to the direction of the wind as we sail and not have to set it up to rely on a compass heading.  As the wind changes direction, the autopilot will correct and change course as the wind changes.

It's hard to get the "rush rush rush" out of our systems that we have been ingrained with for all these years.  It has always been push as hard as you can for so long that it is hard to just sit and relax.   Both of us are just chomping at the bit to get going that the waiting is really getting to us.  When we didn't leave Monday, we were both quite disappointed.  Now we sit and do the hard stuff--wait for the right weather window.