Winds: SW 2.5 to 7 knots Temp: 39F to 46F Boat: ISC #8 Santana 23 Second day of practice for Nat and Tara on a small keelboat. Started the day around 11AM with calm winds. Anchored at the east end of Tomahawk island next to a huge bald eagle on a pylon, really cool! It took us two attempts before we were dug in solid but after that the boat stayed put except some swagger due to the current which is pretty strong here. Relaxed on the hook for little less than an hour, read some, tried out a couple anchor drag alarm applications on the tablet. These monitor our position with GPS and play an alert if we move more than a pre-set distance like 10 meters. Forgot to turn on the data logger until just before raising anchor. We stayed west of Government Island today sailing up and down between buoy 14 and Tomahawk Island. Made one run down river to try going under the Interstate bridge. Current is very strong here and the wind is blocked by the bridges structures so we wound up firing up the motor to come back through up river. Watched a barge come behind us through the open railroad bridge but then cut south to pass under the fixed part of Interstate before cutting back north to the main channel. This saves the drivers on I-5 from a bridge lift. Lots of boats flying beautiful spinnakers, amazingly we were able to pretty much keep up with them!
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