What a Difference a Day Makes

I know I have used that title for a blog post before but I couldn’t think of a better one for today’s post. Yesterday’s lovely weather—albeit without any wind—gave way to gloomy, rainy weather today—with plenty of wind, though. 

We raised the anchor before sunrise and made our way out of Solomons, dodging the boats anchored in the channel. We raised the mainsail before entering the bay and stopped it at the second reef point due to the forecast for winds up to 30 knots. The winds were definitely over 20 most of the time but we were happy not to see 30 knots. We had a fast sail down the bay and decided to bypass our intended destination and sail an additional 25 miles to Fishing Bay, on the backside of Deltaville. We were hoping to find better cell phone service to enable us to get Chris Parker’s forecast in the morning but are disappointed to have just two bars. Fingers crossed it will be enough to get the broadcast. 

Sail with two reefs. For the non-sailing readers that means the sail is not raised all of the way



Sailing in the rain. Thank goodness for the enclosure.