Boyfriend Tracker 1.1 Released

This post was written yesterday, but delayed until BFT 1.1 was ready. Please let me know of additional bugs that need to be fixed. Beautiful moon last night.

I told Amy before I left that she would be able to track my trip progress on NautiG. It'd be like she had a lowjack on me! Unfortunately, with all the adventures I've been having, I haven't had time to work out the bugs in BFT 1.0. While at anchor here, I've had some time, and I've worked out most of the major bugs. If you go to NautiG, and press the "Track" menu button, my day's course will be displayed on the map. Use the forward and back buttons to progress through the trip. There is some missing data. Sorry. If you see a straight line, that is a period when my gps was off for some reason. Probably my vista laptop had crashed.

At the risk of worrying some, and confirming to others their suspicions that I am indeed a moron, I'm going to tell you anyway... I've lost two anchors to the sea gods in a span of less than twelve hours. Fortunately, I had three anchors aboard, but I'm down to a pathetic little thing that grandpa had in his garage. It seems to be holding, and the winds are supposed to calm over the course of the day. And before you get your panties all up in a bunch, there is a plan B,C and D etc... I'm in an inlet, not out at sea.

I don't know why these things keeps happening. I never lost an anchor when I had the Pearson. Now, for those of you keeping score at home, I've lost three anchors in the course of about a month.

Last night there were gale warnings. I moved the boat just behind a grove of trees on shore that was blocking the wind. At about 11 pm I was awoken by the wind. It's direction had flipped 180 degrees, and was howling. It didn't stop all night. Needless to say, I did not sleep well.

When I weighed anchor this morning, the secondary anchor was missing. The line and anchor "poof" disappeared. I only tossed it out as a safety, in case the primary failed. It had plenty of slack line, and little if any tension should have been put on it over the night. It was connected to a cleat with a standard hitch.

I motored over to a quieter anchorage this morning. After a few minutes at anchor here, I noticed that I was drifting. I weighed anchor, but there was no anchor to weigh.

I can't say that I wasn't warned about the anchors. I think it was Maryanne who told me that I should have two connections to each anchor. I guess I'm just a slow learner. Off to the anchor store tomorrow, once the weather calms down. I'll make sure to have two connections to each new anchor, and check them every time I use them.