Yesterday evening was very pleasant. I sat on the foredeck with my
glass of wine and talked with the folks strolling along the breakwater.
This morning it was rainy and windy. Light misty rain that came, mistied
enough to get everything soaked and stopped, and the sun came out. That
was about a 20 minute cycle. But the story is the wind. Make that Wind!
It has blown 25 to 35 knots all day. Dirty, ragged wind. Blasts of wind.
Many gusts above 35, even that one at 48 for a few seconds. The wind is
from the north east and the ocean swell is coming into the harbour. And
the boat two boats back is a shrieker. All-and-all it has been a
spectacular day. The wind now is between 25 and 30, but it has come a
little east, which means the boat is being blown away from the
breakwater. It is about 8 feet away. Normally that is good, but the wind
is so strong I can not pull the boat to the breakwater to get on and
off. I have to ask a passerby to help me pull the boat close, and then
slow the drifting away while I scramble on or off.
Tomorrow will be better.
Reef Early
Bill Doar
s/v Advent II
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