I stayed the whole day at Green Island, enjoying the very still waters inside the protective reef. The anchorage looks wide open to the wind and waves but is, in fact, very well protected from both and Zanshin hardly rocked at all, much better than the waters in Falmouth the past couple of days.
After cleaning the dinghy the day before I attacked the hull cleaning project for Zanshin herself. I wanted to get a “before” and an “after” video of the hull so charged up the GoPro3 camera and downloaded the newest firmware update which, in theory, was to correct for unspecified problems but the real issue known in the internet but not acknowledged by the company is the hang issue when turning it on which (a) depletes the battery in short order, and (b) can only be fixed by removing the battery pack. This sounds easy, but try doing that while diving underwater without ruining the camera! The firmware update unfortunately did not work and I had to make several attempts before it started up correctly and I could put the camera into the underwater housing for use.
The hull was filthy. Lots of moss/green stuff and juvenile barnacles and little wormy things had made the underside of my boat their home and my mission for the day was to evict them. The first pass was with a scraper to get rid of the razor-sharp growth and shave off the main layer of grunge, then pass 2 was with a green Scotch kitchen pad to lightly get the rest off the hull and hopefully expose a layer of the (woefully inadequate) ablative bottom paint. I managed to exert myself for over an hour and when I came up from the second dive the tank was completely empty, so empty that when I opened the valve to blow air into the regulator cover in order to dry it all I got was a weak wheezing sound!
Tired after the exertion of cleaning the hull I relaxed in the cockpit for a bit and read a book, until Happy Hour came around and I had my sun downers while preparing a big hamburger from the remains of the ground beef in the fridge.
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