Waiting for the wind again!

Looks like we are again waiting for wind.. we’ve spent two nights in Avalon and expecting to leave in two days, on Wednesday, as wind is filling in. Our goal is to get up at dawn and start sailing at first light and arrive in San Diego by evening! Maybe a tall order, but I’m hopeful!

We moved the boat from mooring buoy to the outside of Avalon and anchored. It’s a bit more rolley however a bit less touristy! I’m making a list for San Diego; documents for Mexico, spinnaker pole, diesel, propane and a plan for the, new to me, inverter! With some sun and only running instruments and charging phone every 2-3 days I actually don’t need a large inverter! It’s more of luxury. Over the last week I’ve realized that the whole charging system and battery bank is poorly set up. All the important electronics and instruments, fridge, mazerator, running lights and cabin lights are running on the battery that is being charged by the smallest solar panel. The big solar panel is charging the battery first which has very little load on it. This second battery is also quite far away from the main battery. So the “sharing” between the batteries seems poor! I’m just learning…..

Anyhow, my view for day….