Life is interesting in the fjords. There’s no cell phone, vhf or any other kind
of communication with the outside world in these deep sided gorges. So when we’re at sea, we try to pick up
weather forecasts. We set off this
morning with expected winds of SE 15 knots.
We had SE all right, but they were up to 25 knots, and once again we
were beating into pretty big seas. We’re
getting better at this though and are learning to reef earlier.
We beat out of the fjord, and then, although hard on the
wind were able to fetch our course. We
were still bouncing around a fair bit and Teresa discovered that cell phone
coverage had appeared. So off she went
below to send out recent emails and retrieve new ones.
Oh, did I mention it was foggy, with very heavy rain
showers? At each waypoint though, our
course, relative to the wind was easier and faster. And the winds diminished as we entered the
fjord and we ended up motoring the last 5 miles. So all in all, not a bad sail.
The anchorage in Brent Cove, 47 41.87N, 056 20.34W, looks like it could
be very nice if you could see more than ¼ mile.
Maybe tomorrow …
Ships Log: 4078.1, Todays Log: 19.8, Seasons Total: 490.1
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