New Solar, and Leaving Tomorrow

We finished helping John and Ivy with their masthead stuff and also used the delay to order some new solar panels.  We had two panels, one dating from the late eighties and one from the mid 90’s supplementing the two we bought before we left Guam.  They were barely working.  When we added the two new ones we almost doubled our wattage.  We are now up to 450 watts.  Unfortunately with Sari Timur’s sail plan we are limited to what we can carry.  We could have gotten a little more wattage but it would require custom panels and that is expensive.

We are leaving tomorrow to make the 18 mile run to Sequim.  It is a small community known for having a Costco, Home Depot, etc.  but we will be tucked into the well protected bay for a couple of days, doing some varnish work and watching weather.  Sequim is famous for its John Wayne Marina.  The Duke used to spend a lot of time on his yacht up here and liked Sequim Bay so much he bought property there.  In his later years he donated the property to the people on the condition they build a marina on part of the land.  We will probably stay anchored out.  We have been in a marina for so long we need to get ourselves into the anchoring mode again.  We just missed a nice weather window on the outside which is going on right now.  It looks like it closes before we could make it to the outside but that means we can take our time moving out to Neah Bay, which is where we need to be when the next window opens.