Trying to forget about Isabel for a while.
Started out last Sat. with very light wind 3kts, sailed (drifted) for an
hour, gave up, motored to a cove and anchored. At least it's getting cool at
night to sleep even without a breeze.
Sunday, still light, 5-8kts, took all day to sail to next anchorage.
Monday, beautiful, gorgeous sunshiney day, steady 10 kts, put 35 Nm on the
knotlog but moored only 5 miles from previous night. Tied to a vacant
mooring ball. First time using a mooring. Kinda nice not having to weigh
anchor in the morn.
Tuesday, unclipped mooring, sailing through the cove I could see the bay up
ahead was darker, windier, and lots of white capped waves. Put reef in main
and rolled the genny in to about 90% and went close hauled smashing through
the waves. Looked at the knot log and saw 7.1 kts. (previous best was 7 )
Pulled the main in some, headed down a bit , 7.2 then jumped to 7.4 and
finaly 7.5. A new record!

Later in the week sailed through some horrific T-storms and some nice days
too.

Boat performed flawlessly. Hit no rocks.
Can't wait to get back on the water.

Scotty