Weather for July 14:
Wind: W 15 to 30 knots
Visibility: 15 NM
Sky: Partly Cloudy
Sea: rippled in morning, up to 3′ chop in afternoon
Air temperature: 11-13 C
Weather for July 15:
Wind: W 12 to 35 knots
Visibility: <1 to 10 NM
Sky: Fog for most of the day, with some patches of Partly Cloudy in afternoon
Sea: rippled in morning, up to 4′ chop in afternoon
Air temperature: 10-15 C
Weather for July 16:
Wind: W 19 to 38 knots
Visibility: 10-15 NM
Sky: Partly Cloudy
Sea: 2′ chop in morning, up to 4′ chop in afternoon
Air temperature: 11-17 C
Maintenance:
When the solar panels were producing a lot of power on July 14 and 15, I used the desalinator to make a total of 700 litres of water. The output of the desalinator is 1.25 L per minute. It takes about 2.6 kW of energy to run the desalinator, on top of the regular 1.2 kW load of the island.
Today I lowered the boat into the water to grease the boat trailer wheels as well as finish installing and testing the new boat GPS and sonar.
Photo highlights from the past three days:
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- The tagged juvenile male elephant seal left the island at some point before the morning of July 15. Over the past week, most days I saw him on the boat ramp.
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- Blood star seen at low tide
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- Fogged in southern view from the back porch of the house on July 15, when it was foggy for most of the day. The fog signal is the white pillar near the lower left of the photo. When foggy, it emits three high pitched sounds once a minute.
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- Turning seawater and solar power into freshwater at a rate of 1.25 litres per minute.
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- Lowering the boat down the boat ramp from the boathouse to the jetty.