Yes, we are still here. We have been watching the gribs daily for a system we thought would have been here by now but it is slow in arriving. Forecasting weather has never been an exact science and while the gribs help us, nothing is very sure many days out. We are looking for a window to cross the Golfo de Corcovado to Puerto San Pedro, on Isla Chiloe, where we would have favorable winds (ie not on our noses) and a rising tide to help push us along the way.
In the meantime we wait.
Rich did some further investigation of the heater. The exhaust piping fatigued, which we think might have been due to the failure of one of the rubber vibration isolators on the boiler. We will see if we are able to get any replacement parts in Puerto Montt or else we will get the parts when we return to the states for the northern summer. We run the engine to circulate hot water, warm the boat and charge the batteries. It has been overcast and not much wind so no help from the solar panels or the wind generator.
I have started to do a little baking. I have had success with carrot and pineapple cake and no crust apple pie. My efforts at baking bread still need improvement. My first loaf was a brick, number two was more successful, number three was okay. Now I am out of flour so I will have to wait before I try again. In Chile, it is hard to get regular loaf bread unless you are at a supermercado. In Puyuhuapi there were two bakeries but they only make a sort of bread biscuit that is not light and fluffy like a hamburger bun but more like a dinner roll that did not rise enough.
We have plenty of books to read and there are always some boat projects to keep us busy.
Waiting at Caleta Amita
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