After staying another three nights at Old Bight we are raising the anchor and heading north to Bennett’s Harbour. While in Old Bight we walked the gorgeous beach every day. Yesterday we spent a few hours trying to fix the squeal we hear when lowering the mainsail. It had been much better after George and Matt worked on it at Hog Cay but now it is quite noisy again. After greasing the furling system again we have decided the noise isn’t coming from the furling boom. Our current theory is that it is the halyard or the main halyard sheave (pulley over which the halyard passes at the top of the mast.) George will go up the mast again on another calm day and inspect it.
On one of our walks we saw these cute little birds. I used my Merlin app to identify them as semipalmated plovers.
Abandoned house and outbuilding. Not sure what the outbuilding was. It reminds me of a bus stop, but it’s more likely an outhouse.
For a few hours on Tuesday we had west winds. Fortunately, they were fairly light and didn’t kick up big waves since Cat Island is wide open to the west.
Greasing the aft end of the furling system again.
Greasing accessible joints at the forward end. George & Matt previously greased the forward internal parts.
On one of our walks we saw these cute little birds. I used my Merlin app to identify them as semipalmated plovers.
Abandoned house and outbuilding. Not sure what the outbuilding was. It reminds me of a bus stop, but it’s more likely an outhouse.
For a few hours on Tuesday we had west winds. Fortunately, they were fairly light and didn’t kick up big waves since Cat Island is wide open to the west.
Greasing the aft end of the furling system again.
Greasing accessible joints at the forward end. George & Matt previously greased the forward internal parts.
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