Quick entry. Went to Newport last night. Keeping true to its trend, the wind was dead against us again! So we beat to windward all day today and just anchored off the east shore of Block Island in the “old anchorage”.
Rolly, but nice moonlit night. Tired but alive. West winds all day tomorrow, so we’ll stay here and hang out until they turn north.
– Capt’n K & Lala
P.s. There is one REALLY annoying thing about our new boat.
There are cables inside the mast that bang around when the boat rolls from side to side, making tons of noise. In this rolly anchorage, the sound is enough to drive us totally crazy. I dont know how we are going to sleep tonight! Actually it has been bothering us for a few weeks now. We need to remedy this situation ASAP, but doing it without taking the mast down or climbing up the mast in the dark in a rolly anchorage is near impossible. Aaargh!!!!
…see if you can make up drum patterns out of it….?
Ok here’s one….
boom, tika tika tak tak tak tika boom boom boom
My boat uses zip ties to solve this problem. When I changed my masthead, 360 light and antenna wire, I pulled them out and found them bound with zip ties. The long end of the zip tie is supposed to force the cable to stay rounghly in one place. The ties were worn and not doing the job as well as when they were new (maybe 15 years ago?). The new wires were bound with new zip ties and pulled back into the mast as a unit and are very quite now.