So far summer in the Pacific northwest has yet to arrive. We were lucky to get sunshine last weekend and we decided to spend it on board Blackheart. We arrived about 10:00 a.m. and set sail for Plumper Cove on Keats Island. With 8 knots apparent, we sailed closed hauled at 4.5 knots. We arrived at Plumper to find all moorings taken so we motored over to Gibson's Landing for fuel and water. First attempt at docking Blackheart went well although the current pushed the bow away before we were secure and then had to jockey a bit to bring the bow around. After fueling we tied up to to municiple docks and went in for an ice cream. 4 hours at the dock is now $12! I know! We had lots of positive comments on Blackheart which really makes all the hard work more rewarding.
We sailed out the "Gap" and around Popham Island before the wind died and motored back to our mooring. We spent Saturday night on board Blackheart and Sunday had very little wind so we motored over to some log booms and practiced our docking. We took some speed readings for future reference and was quite suprised to find we make 3.5 knots at idle and 6.5 at full throttle.
Vacation begins next week so I hope summer will finally arrive and we can get two weeks of sailing in.
