Plodding along

A mostly uneventful day motorsailing down the Alligator River. We stopped shortly at Coinjock to get rid of trash and buy a few gallons of water. Beau Soleil had to fix the transmission cable but in half an hour we were underway.
The wind picked up in the afternoon so we did not dare to raft up. We anchored in the bay before the long canal starts and in spite of the wind all anchors held and we had a good night sleep. We let the wind make the music.
Today we turned on the engine at 6am as scheduled but it started squealing. After a few minutes of stress Juan tightened the belt on the engine and the squaling stopped. All of last night and along the canal we had no cell phone signal. The sat phone proved its worth again, at least to assuage my incommunicado-phobia.
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