We decided last night to leave the King George River today
and head off east to the Berkeley River, so we hung the dinghy on davits and
headed down to the river mouth just before high tide around 09:00 to cross the
sand bar.
Just at the critical moment my chart plotter rebooted and
defaulted back to factory defaults. I quickly set it up again and shortly after
it did it again. I didn’t want to perform a factory reset just in case it erased
all the waypoints I was following, so I used Navionics on my phone and followed
my previous track on OpenCPN on my laptop until we were through.
Once through the sand bar (and breathing again) I performed
a factory reset on my chart plotter and it started to function normally. I’m
pretty sure the cause is the memory filling up with track points when I leave
the track on while on anchor.
It was blowing twenty knots outside of the river, so we
decided to spend the night anchored in Koolama Bay and reassess the weather tomorrow morning to
decide if we will leave or not.
Bruce had already found a nice sheltered place just off a
nice beach in the north east side of the bay and I headed over to anchor
nearby.
As I approached, the depth was twenty meters so I kept moving
closer into the beach until I got to around five meters to anchor in. I was
getting really close and I thought it was a bit strange to still be in twenty
meters of water until I realised my chart plotter had defaulted to feet instead
of meters, so I did a crash u-turn and headed back out where I dropped the pick
in about six meters.
I spent the day entering waypoints into my chart plotter for
the Berkeley River sandbar crossing, down loading weather fax’s and weather forecasts.
I suggested to Bruce we have a camp fire and a few beers on
the beach tonight and so around 17:00 Bruce picked us up in his dinghy and took
us into the beach where we made a nice fire out of drift wood and watched the
sun go down.
The camp fire was great and around 19:00 we all headed back
to Sirocco where Putu made some nice pasta for everyone and we chatted and looked a
photo’s for a couple of hours before going to bed.
Track Sirocco’s
progress
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