Tuesday July 8th, Wednesday July 9th

We set off for Couture Bay, 45 nm distant with forecasted southerly winds which would have been perfect sailing winds.  As it turned out, the winds were from the East which was the direction we were going in – not so perfect.  And the waves were still pretty big after the recent storms, so Quinita was banged about quite a bit.  After a few hours of beating into this mess, waiting for the winds to come round to the south we decided to head for one of our ‘emergency’ ports instead.  We entered the harbor of Rose Blanche, 47 36.59N 058 41.62W, at about 3pm after sailing a distance of 33 miles to make 19 miles to windward.  That’s sailing! 

Ships Log: 3774.8, Todays Log: 32.9, Seasons Total: 186.8

We are the only boat here that is not a local boat. We went on a hike from this village into the next (even smaller than this village) – Harbour le Cou. What a lovely trail it was! We decided to hang out here till tomorrow. There’s a Tea Room overlooking the harbour where we get our wifi connection and although the opening hours are 11 – 4 the owner said don’t pay any attention to that, if the lights are on, come on in. We said disappointedly, “oh you aren’t open for dinner” and she said “I can do dinner for you”. So we arranged to dine there tomorrow (Wed) night. 

Wednesday dawned cold, wet and foggy.  Ron had a few maintenance jobs to do on the boat and Teresa went for a walk to the local ‘Groceteria’ but it was closed for lunch.  (They’re open 9am – 9pm but closed for lunch and supper).  On the way back, the road had been dug up so not even pedestrians could get through, and Teresa had her walk extended by a mile or so. 

Ron hiked to the top of a hill to get cell phone coverage where he was able to call Raymarine for tech support of our chartplotter. 

In the afternoon, we attempted to dry our wet clothes from yesterday, but were unsuccessful.  Forecast is for fog and rain for the next few days.  Oh well – it’s still a beautiful area. 

We dined at “Madolyns Studio” in the evening.  It was very nice and Lyn was a very interesting person.  The name came from comments Lyn’s friends made when she announced she was opening a B&B and Tea Room at the far end of the only road east of Port aux Basque, at the age of 73 – Mad Old Lyn!