August 20, Bacchante Bay

Departed Quait Bay at 10:30, after working on the generator. It ran for about 5 minutes then quit. Low oil pressure alarm. There was plenty of oil in the crankcase, so after reading the manual it talked about cleaning the oil filter. I don't think that has ever been done. Now after doing it I know it has never been done. I had to take a wire cutter and cut part of the generator case away inorder to get to the filter. But first we drained the oil. After cleaning the filter, adding oil back in, closing up the case, we started it. It ran for about 2 minutes and the low pressure alarm went off again. Not sure what to do at this point. Need internet or phone service to contact the manufacturer.

We went through Cypress Bay, Calmus Passage, Millar Channel, through Hayden Passage (narrow), Shelter Inlet to Bacchante Bay. 24nm and 4 hours later we were anchored in 48' of brownish water. Must be tannin from the mountains. There is no one here, no fish farms, cabins, boats, campers, NO ONE, just Susan and I. We took a nice dinghy ride up Watta Creek ~ .5 miles until it changed to (shallow). Thinking about going to Hot Springs Cove tomorrow. Short trip, but it will set us up to go back out into the ocean and back down Vancouver Island to the Broken Islands.

Current conditions: wind 2.1knts, temperature outside 64 degrees.
Current location: 49.27.113N 126.02.168 W

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