Day 45

For some reason, this didn't make it to the blog site originally:

Day 45:
Forecast gales and fog, same as yesterday; decision same as yesterday -
another day in West Bamfield. I'm sure that I will not be in the running
for the title of "Bruce the Bold"; however there is no upside to getting
ourselves into a situation where we are beat up especially with
short-handed crew.

Drama this morning was watching our neighbour, a brand-new, out of the
box Nordic Tug 42 pull away, cut a day marker short and end up on a
rock. If you are going to do such a thing, it is good to do it within
1/2 mile of Coast Guard rescue boat! They tied on to him, waited for
tide to come in and towed him back to the dock. He was able to get a
diver and confirm that aside from paint and scrapes and wounded pride,
there is no serious damage. There are 2 couples who are partners in the
boat; the partner who was not driving and was obviously glad it was not
him who put it onto the rocks was filling in the details for us. I
suppose he now has a "get out of jail free card" for his first incident.

Winds haven't built up near us, but they are blowing 25+ at Sherringham
and Race Rocks down in JdF straight; it appears that we will have
weather window tomorrow until late afternoon/evening. So if we get up
and leave early we should be o.k. Final check of forecast update at
21:30 will confirm our plans. This is beginning to feel like Bull
Harbour all over again. I'm anxious and I'm sure Ralph is also, to get
underway again and hit home port. So close and yet so far!

We decided to allocate some of the ship's fresh water to a brief shower
each ( I'm afraid to remember when I last had a shower!). However, it
was lukewarm-cold at best; appears my "fix" of the air lock in the
circulating water heater did not do the trick. It will have to go onto
the "todo list" and get repaired back at Canoe Cove. In any event it
feels good to have had a shower, albeit it not a hot one.

Over and out from West Bamfield.