Day 19 Thursday July 11^th

The wind has finally died down.  The waves have abated and we decide it is time to head east.  All of our fellow boaters are also evacuating the wave bowl in South Benjamin’s that we have been in for 2 days.  Everyone is anxious to move on.

Dawson rigging DRS

We head out after fabulous coffee.  It is difficult to get underway too early as neither of us wants to interfere with our wonderful relaxing coffee mornings.  Every morning Dawson hand grinds our beans.  We have been dripping the coffee and it is excellent.  We also tend to sleep in until 8:00 and then listen to the 9 o’clock cruisers net show which is almost an hour long.  We are not sure where we will head but know we want to get closer to Little Current as we do not want to risk not picking up our guests on Friday.

Successful launch, (note the life jacket)

We set out with a bit of wind, but it dies very quickly.  Often there is wind until about 11 in the morning, just when we get going, then it dies for the afternoon and picks up at 5 or 6 in the evening for a couple hours.  We are sad we will have to motor.  In an attempt to sail, we head south on the east side of Clapperton, but it does not help.  The iron genny is on for the next couple of hours.  South of Amedroz we decide to head north between Bedford Island and Amedroz, but still no wind, but a shorter distance to Mosquito cove.  As we get closer to Mosquito we decide it would be a good idea to hoist our Assymetrical sail.  This is the colourful sail that is used in light winds,that we may need for the race in a week; definitely a good idea to hoist prior to the race.

We turn west (opposite direction to our destination) to try to catch the light wind. Dawson has rigged the sail which can be a bit tricky and we are ready to hoist.  The sail fills and it is a beautifully sight; a perfect trial run with no errors.  We are very happy with ourselves.  The sail is in very good shape as it has not been used very often at all.  Hopefully we get to use it in the race.

Julie relaxing

After about an hour we douse the sail and it gets repacked into its sail bag to be stored below deck.  Now it is time to anchor and have our traditional Gin and Tonic reward for a good days work sailing. 

Cheers

Julie and Dawson