We've been slogging our way northward for four hours now, after a 5am start. Seas are rippled and wind calm. It's a glorious day, cool and sunny.
Our speed over ground is over 9 knots; 5 knots though the water . That suggests we could be making 4 knots even without Propulsion. The wind velocity has been hovering around 2 knots all morning. That should change when we get out into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The wind is expected to be from the west there at around 15 knots.
Until then… we sprint with the current.
Later…
We're in Alec Bay for the night. We never did see the fifteen knot wind that was forecast, although now that we're anchored, the wind generator is singing its song.
This is the third time I've anchored in this cove, but the first time we've gone ashore. The first couple of times I've been in here we arrived with barely enough time to cook dinner before we started to lose our light. Today we started earlier in the day, and thanks to the tidal flow, traveled much faster than we normally do. We spent a lot of the day moving at 8.5-9 knots. That put us in our anchorage a little after 1 pm. Plenty of time to go ashore and still make jambalaya for dinner. 😋
And tomorrow you enter the upper crust of North America! I'll be waving at you day after as you go by. :)
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