Today's post is primarily about a specific aspect of weather, wind. As you can see in the picture above, there are two major cyclonic storms in the North Pacific at this time. The storm on the right is in the Gulf of Alaska and its rotating counterclockwise around its low (the blue-green "eye").
Zooming in a bit more, you can now clearly see the blue low which is the rotational center of the storm. It is just to the west of the island of Haida Gwaii.
The color code on this wind map is at the bottom of the pictures. Purple is no wind, then blue, green, yellow, orange, red, brown, black, and finally gray denoting 50+ knots of wind. So, the red and darker shades are what I am principally concerned about.
Zooming in even further, you can now see a teeny blue dot where Cape Caution lies. Just north of Cape Caution is Green Island Anchorage, denoted by a teenier green dot. We are in Green Island Anchorage. I pulled-up the weather for this exact location, that's the pop-out just to the right of the green dot.
So, while out in Queen Charlotte Sound they are enjoying 35-40 knots of wind from the south, we are seeing only 11 knots. And I can tell you that at sea level behind the verdant forested hills surrounding the anchorage, we are seeing less than 1 knot of wind. And that is precisely why we are here and why we stayed here today.
What did we do? Some chores, like clean the engine room, de-pickle the watermaker, general cleaning, and wash the outside of the boat (taking advantage of the steady rain).
And we read some books.
A curious little muskrat swam by to check us out on his way from one islet to another. We saw him again later this afternoon on his return trip.
This Zen moment is brought to you by Mother Nature...
And dinner is brought to you (me) by the esteemable Chef Karen! Tonight it is Pho (ish). Quite tasty, but it needed a bit of doctoring as in more mushrooms and a dash of Worcestershire sauce to give it an umami bump.
Playing with propane again. My manifold was all bolted down so it cannot move. Last year when we closed out the season it was all fine. When we got aboard a few days ago, Karen said she smelled propane. Leaping into action, I chased the smell to the propane locker. After much fiddling, I discovered it was both the manifold and the regulator. The manifold fittings were all loose and if I held the flashlight at just the right angle, I could see the density waves of propane flowing out of the regulator vent. How can this happen? Regardless, it is now all fixed and my locker is clean (soapy water at close to 50/50 mix is a pretty good, if not goopy cleaner). All tightened, fittings are taped with yellow teflon tape + blue PFTE compound, tightened hand-tight + 1 turn with a wrench. So far, we haven't smelled more propane nor have we blown up. My next project is to replace this domest...
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