Tuesday, May 04, 2010
The wind blew through Trellis all night and we had sustained winds of 20 knots. Going shopping ashore was easy, but getting back with a laden dinghy against the chop in the bay and against the wind was a very wet affair. We got going at noon and I decided that the North Sound offered protection if the winds were to pick up further and we prepared for a long uphill slog. The leech of the genoa is still torn, so I only had a small portion of the genoa to work with but it was sufficient to power us comfortably along at 4-6 knots and occasional periods of 7 knots. We had to tack several times but had only a slight angle of heel due to the lack of sail. We had a charter boat follow us and it almost caught up, but it tacked too early to make it through the channel entrance and thus we made it in before them with a comfortable margin. As the saying goes, two sailboats only race when they are in sight of each other.
Dinner at the Saba Rock bar was good but I think it is time to replenish the supplies of Carib beer aboard, as we managed to go through rather a lot.
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