Sailing

We did some sailing today. It was an amazing day - sunny and windy. We motored through light wind around the north end of Tzartus Island, then west toward the Broken Group. We anchored at Reek Island in a bight on the east side. That gives us good protection from wind and waves rolling in from the west. 

Seals, oyster catchers and eagles greeted our arrival. They must have wondered what was going on when we 
pumped up standup boards and scattered about the anchorage in different directions. 

The last couple of afternoons have been sunny enough to deploy solar panels on the back deck. It’s nice to have them to keep the house battery charged. They generated roughly six amps in total while the sun was out. 

MaryLou is cooking up butternut squash risotto for dinner tonight, a meal extracted from the Instant Pot cookbook. It was, in fact, the first meal I ever cooked in the Instant Pot.  The recipe calls for half a cup of white wine, so of course the crew each has to have a glass to make sure the Chardonnay is adequate for the purpose.