Turtle Neck bend

Well today’s temperature was more in line with what we were thinking it would be like. Last night however was very cold as predicted and we were glad we decided not to go out to the ocean.  Paranoia is such a strong term, I like to think that I am instead sensitive to the sounds/vibrations coming from the engine. (esp after the transmission woes). At any rate, I thought I was feeling more vibration today as we were motoring so we pulled up to a marina so I could check things out. I dove into the lazerette and checked everything along the drive train, but saw no issues. I figured maybe a shaft zinc had gone loose or some small line was around the prop as it was only happening at high speed. The water was 17 degrees – eek - and dark brown but I didn’t have a lot of choice so I grabbed the “spare air” and the mask and took a look. The zinc’s were tight and lots of barnacles everywhere. This was more by feel as the visibility was only inches. So what is the problem? I don’t know, I think paranoia, oops I mean sensitivity along with a build up of barnacles that is misbalancing things. Anyways after my cold bath I jumped in the hot boat shower to wash off whatever was in the water. We were about 5 nm from our stopping point today when we heard “slow flight” (Steve) calling another boat. This is the boat that we had the Southern Boil on a few weeks back. We got a hold of him and we met at a common anchorage (Turtle Neck Bend) along with another woman (Mary) and her 12 year old daughter who have been travelling as buddy boats.

Lots of dolphins today, in fact the little beasts have a habit of jumping inches away from the boat and scaring you. They got Heather one time and me another. A couple pictures of some big houses that are around, one seems to have a copper roof although hard to see in this picture. Here is picture of how they mount electrical poles in the water – yikes!