Before getting out of bed I decided to fix an old problem on this blog. From way back, somehow the pictures on our ‘Round Long Island‘ sequence had been lost. They’re now all recovered.
Once I’d bothered to haul myself up it turned out to be a short measure to resolve the remaining issues with John’s WiFi device. In choppy water I dinghied to the dock and handed it back giving it all a quick test. All was fine.
I ran a few errands before heading back to the boat where we stayed until early evening. Having had enough of the bouncing around in the 15-25 knot winds pounding us all day we decided to go ashore to eat at the yacht club. We bumped into Steve and Vickie from True Companions and shared a table with them. The place was packed with a cruising rally that was supposed to have left this week but are pinned down by the weather with the rest of us.
The place ended up being quite noisy which resulted in us leaving a little early. Helen ended up feeling quite unwell – perhaps reverse sea sickness having been on a bouncing boat for the last few days. Heading back into wind and back to the boat we got a little wet. However we’d made sure we had hot water ready and showered as soon as we had the dinghy up on it’s davits.
During the evening and overnight the winds strengthened. The GPS/anchor alarm again went to bed with us and kept us awake for a while us we swung on our very firm anchor. I ran up a fever for a couple of hours so perhaps we’ve eaten something disagreeable.
This morning the winds have not let up. They are forecast to reach 40 knots gusting to 50 by midday before easing off this evening. As soon as it’s light enough we’re going to remove our dodger to prevent damage. I will also tie together the end of our sail bag facing the wind. Then we’ll just have to hunker down and spend the day in this washing machine of an anchorage.
Looking ahead our weather window for Friday is still there with a possibility of leaving Thursday evening now presenting itself. We are so ready to leave here.
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