Remember that scene in Groundhog Day where Bill Murray wakes up to the 6:00 am clock radio alarm playing “I got you babe”? Every day…….

We were rudely awakened once again to our 5 am iPhone alarm, which oddly enough ( not planned for this trip) is the sound of a foghorn moaning.  The Cap’n poked his head out the companionway just like the groundhog and said, once again, “Nope, not today”. Then with the finesse of a contortionist, crawled back to his cozy bunk in the aft quarter berth.

Well, not quite like that.  More like another hour or so of checking the forecast and consulting with our Halifax crew, who, although unable to complete this part of the journey with us in body, are still very much with us in heart and soul 😀.  They say tomorrow is better.  Another consultant agrees these winds are nasty.   But then again, always unpredictable, so may have to bite the bullet and resolve to having another nasty day of boating to get home anytime this month.

Boating requires much strategic thinking.  Another factor this morn was the precarious docking circumstance we find ourselves in.  The floating dock we chose to tie up to 3 ( yes 3) days ago in PAB was perhaps not the best choice.   Took us a full half hour to plan and walk through our exit strategy, which was beginning to sound like a carefully maneuvered  wartime plan of attack on the enemy, before concluding our army was just too small.   We’d wait to enlist the help of some locals to keep us from crashing into the adjacent boats in the narrow space we had with the howling wind blowing the wrong way once again.

Two more sailboats have been here for the last several days with us.  One from France which is going our way as well.  Another which came in from Halifax and was very close to us as we neared NF shores but needed to be towed in, it’s engine had “give out”.   And later this morning another showed up, from where we don’t yet know.  It will be interesting to hear their story shortly.

Haven’t given up on going somewhere today.  We’ll see.   Come What May.😀