Better Sailing Day - Nanaimo to Tribune Bay
After learning the lesson the day before about
weather windows, we catch a nice southerly up the Strait to Tribune
Bay.
Today it started to blow out of the southeast. We
had a little tense times because Steven wanted to go, but Roma and the kids had
planned to go into town, do laundry, provisioning, etc. We decided to take the
weather and we took off.
We had a
great 5 hour run before the wind died and we started motoring. We were running
wing on wing with the jib poled out in 15 knots of wind, almost from directly
behind us. When the wind died 4 hours later, we tuned the radio to listen to the
weather forecast.
Forecast called for
increasing northwesterlies, so we decided to bail out again and duck into an
anchorage until we hit more favorable conditions. That's where we are now:
waiting in Tribune Bay for the southerlies to kick in so that we can get further
up the Strait.
Posted: Thu - July 8, 2004 at 04:02 PM