| After having a good nights sleep in the Explorer for the first time ever it was time for some onboard breakfast and a morning drive. | |||
| I should have driven more yesterday or during night that was now obviuos when wind was rather hard (~10m/s, ~22mph). I even woke up in the early hours of morning and checked the weather and should have taken a ride then. | |||
| First ride was just on the river. I left the hoverport normally to later pick up few passenger from a pier. As i struggled against the wind to get the craft positioned correctly for passengers to step it seemed hopeless. Finally i got the craft way i wanted and first of the passengers was about to step in she asked me why all this water ? | |||
| Yep, of course i had forgetten to put back the draining plugs. Quickly back ashore and leave the craft in way water will ran out. | |||
| Second try, plugs in place. This time it was just me and the "Mrs." and we took off from the hoverport. We headed downstream and got to the bay. There wasn't too much waves there surprisinly. Wind was hard, but came from inland and therefore no waves. But wind sure was significant. Going headwind was not much of a option as i don't want to push throttle wide open. | |||
| We got back right away, i just made a quick note of how far we approximately we from a point i had waypointed earlier. | |||
| Later on same day we did almost the same route, just the other way. This time we had to go headwind for a short run, but we had some speed so our speed din't fall to zero as i managed to turn to sidewind. There were couple of boats coming towards us, but i tried to seek a more protected course closer to shore line. I don't know about the engine temperature even now it sometimes climbs closer to 100C than 90C. We got a new thermostat for 82C, but didn't have to install it as lights took so much time. | |||
| We didn't drive much more, hoping it would be better weather tomorrow. | |||