The day dawned bright and sunny – yippee, perhaps the fog
has finally abated. We couldn’t leave
without taking a photo of the manmade breakwater cinderblocks protecting one
side of the harbour.
We noticed a problem
with one of our sail battens, the other day when we were sailing in 30
knots. So we investigated and discovered
one of our battens was missing. Well it
was pretty windy and there was some sail thrashing going on at times. We set off anyway and the sail didn’t set too
badly. We had a pleasant sail in light
tailwinds between 8 and 12 knots with boat speeds of between 3 and 5
knots. (Perhaps unintuitively, sailing
dead downwind does not produce best boat speeds). We arrived at Fortune Harbour, 47 04.28N 055 49.87W, and Ron had a little
difficulty backing onto the dock in a crosswind. In the excitement, Teresa lost her (very
expensive) glasses at the end of the dock.
We eventually managed to dock, clear customs and then Ron went for the
first swim of the season (with wetsuit). Luckily we were able to recover the
glasses. The weather was still good, so
we aired the boat out and dined onboard.
Ships Log: 3976.5, Todays Log: 24.1, Seasons Total: 388.5
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