I’m still working on the website. I’ve done a lot of work on “Previous Cruises” and the latest addition is a “Video Clips” page. It has been added to the navigation bar at the top of each page, or you can click on the link in this email to check it out. Nothing exciting, but a little underwater footage of dolphins and a sea turtle from our Dolphin Excursion with Eric and Drew.
The weather is still peaceful and quiet. After restocking fridge and freezer, Thursday morning we motored out of the marina and turned north. We only went as far as Makua again, anchored and spent the night in our same spot. The only difference this time was that we saw a few dolphins cruising the bay waters, and because the weather had died down we didn’t need our flopper-stoppers to enjoy a quiet night’s sleep.
Friday morning we continued on, but with a slight delay as the motorized winch for raising the anchor gave us trouble. Mike jury-rigged a fix and we used the main halyard winch to provide additional power to the troubled anchor winch and succeeded in stowing the anchor properly. However we are completing this journey using a back-up anchor deployed by hand with some of our new hurricane rope as the anchor line.
Around the north end of Oahu we dipped our bow into Waimea Bay, but with an unreliable anchor we decided to continue on around the island and down the lush green windward (east) coast of Oahu to Kaneohe Bay where, if needed, we hoped we would have access to a marine parts store for anchor repairs.
Kaneohe is a lovely anchorage and we’re just hanging out enjoying the surrounding and relaxing (when not working on the anchor!). We are only a few hours sail away from our home base in Ko’Olina, at which point we will have circumnavigated Oahu completely!
We have not failed to notice that we appear to be anchored right underneath the downwind leg of the landing approach for a nearby military airport. Some rather large aircraft have been flying directly overhead repeatedly, doing touch-and-gos. Yesterday we saw a P3 Sub Hunter come in on three engines. We still don’t know if it was for practice or the real thing. Since it only passed over one time, we’re thinking it may have been the latter.