Captain's Log

11/11/10 Deltaville to Cape Charles
wind N 12-20
waves 3-4
10am-4pm
motored 1 hour
stowed gear and cleaned boat
Whisper is slightly overloaded, nothing serious but she is about .5" below her designed water line. Shit

11/12/10 to Norfolk
Average Speed: 7.2 k
Max Speed: 12.3 k
Wind N 12-20
Waves 3-5
10:45-4:45
motored 1.5 hours
Cleaned boat and stowed gear.

11/13/10 day sail with Softball team
motored 3.5 hours
motor sailed
Cleaned boat and dingy, again.....

11/14/10 to Coinjack NC ICW miles 0-50
motored 9 hours (9 am - 6 pm)
6.5 gallons fuel used (both engines) started with full tanks from Norfolk, refueled at the end of the day in Coinjack.
Having an issue with air bubbles developing in the starboard fuel line at high RPM. Problem seems to get resolved with a line bleed.

11/15/10 to Manteo NC
Motored 8 hours (7 am - 3 pm)
Still having trouble with starboard engine fuel flow at high RPM. Laura had to bleed the line while we were passing a tug and barge in a narrow channel. Kinda scary. We were only outpacing the other vessel when both engines were at cruising speed.
Also having a problem with pressure in the holding tank - this could turn ugly if unchecked. When transiting the ICW your black water overboard dump valve not only needs to be in the closed position, but you must wire tie the valve shut.
Painted port stairs where we had a problem with a silicone fix turning brownish yellow.
Setup and installed "Wirie" marine WIFI range extender. It Works!

11/16/10 To Engelhard
Motorsailed all day. Rain in the forecast with a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon
6:45am-1:10pm
speed 6.4-6.4
Wind SE 8-12
waves 1 foot or less
Starting to notice the legendary "ICW mustache" on the transom steps. nothing on the bows (I'm glad we just waxed the hulls).
Fished with all three hand lines (no luck).

11/17/10 To Oriental or in fact Ocracoke OBX
6:15 am - 12:30 pm
wind 15-25 SW
Motored towards Oriental. Decided that we need not make ourselves seasick heading straight into 25 knots of wind and short period 3-4' seas. So, we turned left and had a perfect sail to Ocracoke on the OBX.
top speed 8 knots.
No cell service here but the Wirie is working and we are using some free WIFI for contact to the real world.
3 hours on the engines (approx).