Late last night we checked the weather which didn’t sound promising for leaving West Jaddore. So we committed to doing some other things aboard the boat like reorganize the junk drawers, set up a little clothesline for all the wet clothes we accumulated from yesterday’s sail….that kinda thing. But low and behold when we checked the weather again this morn, it had changed.

It still called for 35 knot wiinds with 3 meter seas – not nice – but it was supposed to back northerly and reduce in the afternoon. And we would have a late start and seemed to have a window in which we could chase the gale, so after much debate we decided to push on. This debate also included a local gentleman, John, who happened to own the mooring we hooked onto last night. We would have loved to stay and hang out with John – he is a well experienced sailor and he had a wealth of wisdom and tidbits of info for our consideration.  And he took our garbage !  (Thank you John V – if ever you want to sail to Newfoundland again, we would be pleased to host you).

We slipped the mooring at 9:30 and at 1:30, after it became

clear we weren’t chasing the bad weather anymore but well into it, we decided to back track and tuck into Pope’s Harbour for the rest of the day. It was beautiful, sunny and tranquil – hard to believe this water was part of the same angry sea from whence we came.

So we are half a day behind, but had 3 days in the bank remember. But looks like Wednesday is another doozy and we will be landlocked again so have decided to go to Liscombe Lodge tomorrow anyway, rather than beyond it. It has laundry, showers, fuel, and cold beer 🙂

Not many pics taken today – all hands busy with the sailing.   Considered a game of eye spy with my little eye to pass the time but as you can see from the pic, there were but 3 colours to be seen – two shades of grey and white.  Game would be over in 3 seconds.