Our windlass needs Danlove and we can't raise our anchor so we get we're stuck for another day at Mason beautifyl Mason Island. We leave early the next morni...

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so we got up nice and early today had

our breakfast made some coffee

pop some gravel knew that today we do

have some high winds headed our way so

we figured that we should get an early

start get out of here before all this

stuff goes down at 3:00 p.m. we got the

engine started I attempted to lift the

anchor up but we couldn't get our anchor

up there seems to be an electrical

problem I'm not quite sure Dan's got

wires hanging everywhere it's just a

mess going back and forth trying to get

that the buttons to just click anywhere

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last time on sailing dialer Chandra we

visited my home Bay and partied on a

deserted island we had a lovely visit

from the police yeah yeah Wow

I don't even know why they were out here

actually they were just checking things

out they make they're just a tad worried

about these high winds but we're

expecting later but honestly our

encourages is really really good we

we're liking this crescent moon the one

direction everything is just perfect

we had no issues we didn't slip anchor

ground or anything last night have about

22 feet or more under the keel so we're

good

oh we ran out of water good thing that

we had a water jug tied up to the deck

so hopefully we have enough water to

last us today as it seems as though we

may be staying another night on Mason

Island we have a loom our electric winch

on board and I went up and how to look

at the winch and disconnected things and

then I've been using my multimeter to

test out this control box which is

mouths that just in RV berth there with

the wiring and I checked all the wiring

connections and everything looks good

and we've been using the windlass

everyday just about and it's been like

touch-and-go like sometimes it'll work

and then sometimes you have to wait and

it won't work and then it's just been

sporadic so today it just won't work

we're like I held the button down I

played with the circuit board it wiggled

wires and everything it's just it's not

working so whatever it was it's it's at

that point so so here's the switch now

I've got it down to this because when I

test out these on my multimeter this is

what controls the switch and right now

they all are connected to each other

somehow like there's a short out in

there somewhere that's causing this to

to not operate so I'm gonna have a look

at what's inside this box we get this

goin we'll be able to pull our anchor

out of the water and if we don't then

we'll have to lift it up manually and

only do mornings and docks from here on

which isn't a big deal we just have to

find moorings on our chart plotter and

so this is a like a classic like Thomas

Edison style

switch got

didge we've got you know these copper

coils and then we've got these copper

switches here with Springs

so how it would work is that if there is

electricity I think it would engage one

of these two sides or whatever and make

contacts I'm not entirely sure but what

I do know is that these contacts here

all look gross and corroded and they

should be like clean and clean looking

metal I'm looking at this one looks

pretty bad

there's something like nasty corrosion

on there it's not it's not terrible but

it would stop it from making contact so

to fix this switch I think all I really

need to do is take some sandpaper and

clean up these contacts put it all back

together and give it a shot and that

might fix our problem so there you go

winless repair one keep your fingers

crossed

hey guys

I fixed the windless you took awhile

they took all day so guys it turns out

that cleaning up my winless was very

good because I think it's gonna work

better but at first I didn't think he

was going to a seal seal where's that

another booth well that's the bird

that's a bird we're still here in Mason

Mason Island in my home Bay Nova Scotia

it I couldn't pick a better place to be

stuck for 24 hours it's gorgeous here

like we have the most perfect sunset

right now there's a we have another boat

here inner inner Vista we've got this

beautiful beach we got this really nice

water we jumped in it was hurt today

yeah again yeah that's so refreshing

especially when you don't have a shower

bill so we get to enjoy this great Sun

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security security security all stations

all stations all stations there is a log

a drift just off Mason's

island in Mahone Bay 44 degrees 26

minutes north and 64 degrees 14 minutes

west so that was our second encounter

with the police we have a police boat

here and might be the same boat or the

only boat it's the same guys and the

captain gave me a wave as they went by

but yeah it's the same ones who came to

check on this one yes it's nice to see

them again

so yeah we're just sailing now on route

scooter Lunenburg and we've got both

sails up heading into the wind

please we make a good time so far we're

doing three knots on the other tack in

fact again soon yeah we saw a dolphin

this morning we tried to get the camera

we scrambled we tried to get on play

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the IceCube are the oysters something

nice or something so um so we lost our

Windex a couple days ago we heard a

splash and we were like what fell what

fell in the water and we looked all

around and we couldn't find what it was

had no idea and then I looked up to see

which way the wind was blowing and the

Windex was gone for a weather vane or

whatever you want to call them so we've

been sailing without one which is okay I

mean you just tie a string to one of

your shrouds or something and I'll tell

you which way the winds blowing but it's

helpful to have your Windex out there

anyway

we're in lüneburg today again well we're

gonna leave soon but before we do I'm

just gonna run up to the boat store that

they have here and see if there's a

Windex so wish me luck no Windex they

did have a Windex but it didn't have the

one with the little orange indicators

that I want and I figure if I'm going to

go up the mast which I'm sure you guys

want to see but I'm gonna do it I'm

going to do it one time so I'll wait

until I get back

Windex all the bits and pieces bye bye

Lu number so that's it for this week's

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Chandra we sail to McGrath's Cove then

weigh anchor for home if any of you guys

have a loom are winless and you find

that the chain kind of turns or gets

jammed in the mechanism before it goes

down into the hole and you have to like

back it up and then put it forward and

then back it off with a fork put a

comment below because I'd really like to

know if there's a way to make that work

better because I find it's frustrating