Our sailing guide indicates that the general weather pattern
is for light winds overnight and in the morning, then picking up to SW 15 in
the afternoon. We’re travelling SW for
the next several days, which implies strong-ish headwinds if we wait until the
afternoon to set sail. So we set off at
8am and had the anticipated light winds, followed by SW 10-15. By the time the stronger winds came in today,
our route to South West harbor, 44 31.59N, 064 00.72W, took a turn and we
were sailing NW which gave us a beam reach – very nice.
We arrived at South West Cove expecting an empty anchorage,
but found that the cove was full of moorings with no room to anchor. Brenda and Vin, in their 40’ trimaran,
arrived before us and managed to secure a visitors mooring (the only one). The winds were forecast to be light in the
evening and they kindly offered to let us raft with them, which we did.
We went for a walk ashore and found that all the good view
spots were on private properties. Well
we got to stretch our legs anyway.
Back on the boat we had a refreshing swim, followed by a sun
shower to wash off the salt.
Ships Log: 5072.3, Todays Log: 37.4, Seasons Total: 624.4
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