We’re only 15% into the 6000 mile great loop and this is what we’ve learned so far:
- Don’t cruise through Georgia in the spring without a vacuum cleaner in the pilot house. This is ours. It runs over ten minutes on a charge.
The biting horse flies love it. It gives them good exercise playing hide and seek with the inlet, and when they are ready they dive in and get a carousel ride round and round. When we step out on deck and open it, some fly away to tell their friends who soon show up on our windows. Others like it so much they stay.
- Never drop more anchor chain than the distance from the boat to the nearest shore. We learned this when the hook was dropped in the center of the channel at a secluded anchorage. Wind and current placed us near the shore as the tide went out. Oops! We were up late that evening waiting to refloat.