We start early in order to make this, hopefully, a safer anchorage. I flash a ¨ ¨! Today 38 years ago I went to Sears to Quebec! That was yesterday!
The day is beautiful and what is encouraging is that despite the fact that we're cold front FULL LOAD ° ¨, the temperature is not unpleasant. After leaving Belhaven, we commit ourselves in a perfectly straight channel, only two buoys, 2 bridges, 2 houses, 3 or 4 trailers and nothing else, that trees ... for 20 miles! I begin to dream in France on a channel of the same length, it would probably crossed, 6 castles and 12 villages, 24 taverns 36 wineries! What to spend at least a week navigate. Today, we made 33 miles a day, because we had the luxury of a 26-mile detour when one realized that the boat slowed more than the wind rose and the wave grew bigger and longer than we had in the face, has a point, we prefer to turn back and return to anchor ourselves in the same place almost 5 years ago in a ¨ nowhere ¨.
We remain stuck ¨ ¨ (speak French!) With, for 36 hours, sustained winds of 30kn and 40kn peaks and unfortunately in the axis of the anchor. A huge wave is formed in the anchor, the bow regular and the wave penetrates right down over the deckhouse and occasionally (rarely ...) passes over dodger ¨ ¨. Hell! The rest of the time, we are happy with the wind drops of 25kn and peak 32/35kn.
The anchor seemed to have kept good, but at the time of departure, I noticed that the rope I had brought unusually, he is gone ... been a part taken by degrees to the bottom of the anchor that has slipped and as the background is a glue-style chocolate pudding, it was completely buried. Going up the anchor, he resurfaced, once the anchor installed and backing up. The float of the rope had become the second anchor with a big sticky ball of clay! Strangely, this may be what has helped us and prevented from sliding completely and hold it in place.
Photo: Alligator Creek
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