By morning the swell at Navadra was pretty bad. As we were familiar with the reefs outside of Navadra we decided to leave earlier than normal and were off by just after 7am. We exited the bay pounding into the wind and surf. At one stage my speargun fell from it’s perch and made a hole in our new seat cover. Not fun. As we turned down wind things got a bit better but not brilliant. Our desired direction was somewhere between a broad reach and running straight down wind wing on wing. We alternated between the two and at time tried to run with just our head sail. It was a passage of confused seas and many sail changes. It was almost a relief when the winds died down to such an extent we just motored with the head sail out.
We arrived at Musket Cove and took a mooring in time for lunch. We went ashore and stuffed ourselves. We decided we’d be better off for a couple of nights on the dock allowing everyone a chance to do their own thing for a while. So just after lunch we brought the boat in and secured our self to the dock med style.
While our friends went ashore Helen and I caught up with things aboard the boat. Then came the biblical deluge. The heavens opened and the winds blew allowing us to discover two new hatch leaks. I left the main door open which normal is ok as at anchor the boat points into wind. Not so on the dock. The main cabin ended up soaked.
The storm passed and we were left with cool clear air. At the bar, where we had a few off boat beers, we bumped into John and Pam from Passages as well as the Pakia Mists who we’d also met earlier in the day.
We passed the evening (in fact part of the night) playing dominoes. 1am we were asleep.
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