May 25, 2012
It’s 5AM and we see land nine miles away, well, see it on radar anyway. It’s still dark. We were hoping to make the waypoint at the east end of the island at 7AM (LDT – Legacy daylight time – one hour earlier than PDT – we changed our clocks once since we left). We’re going about 4 1/2 knots with a reefed mainsail and mostly rolled up headsail to try to keep it that slow. Lets see, 9 divided by 4.5 = 2, two hours until the waypoint. That sounds like we’re right on schedule.
We wanted to get in to our east-end waypoint at this time so that we could sail the 15 miles to the anchorage along the island in the early morning light. It should be beautiful with cliffs rising abruptly out of the water to 3500 feet. We’ll write more after we get in and let you know how it was.
It’s been a hard passage and we’re really glad to have all but the last few miles behind us. The past two or three days have been really rough. There were swells coming from several directions at once and Legacy got thrown around pretty good. It was all we could do to move around the boat the minimally necessary amount to maintain ourselves and seaworthiness. Don’t even get me started about how hard it been to go to the head (that’s restroom on boat-speak)! It’s much better right now. It finally calmed down a few hours ago.
We heard from our friend Dean who was just a little ways ahead of us the whole trip. He’s in the anchorage – he got in yesterday. He says there are lots of boats there – maybe 25 or more at anchor. There’s still room for us to anchor but we’re surprised that there are that many boats still there. Most of them should have been and gone by now. We thought we’d have the place to ourselves. Oh well. More later. -Rich
