Singlehanded again - the return trip
After exploring Gore bay for a while, we stopped in Beardrop and returned to Blind River to drop off my sailing parters. Other than waking to light snow fall, and frost! it was uneventful and enjoyable sailing. I got underway from blind River on the morning of September 11, looking forward to the challenge of returning home singlehanded. the St. Clair would be a challenge, but far less of a challenge southbound with the current. The log entries read:
9/9/92 - Return Beardrop Harbor, winds 30 SE
9/10/92 - Return Blind River, Winds 15 NW
9/11/92 - Blind River to Harrisville single handed again - 44 NM, (7:50 - 19:30), Winds 25 S
For me, a departure of 7:50 am is pretty early, given I set no alarm. I found I quickly fell into a great circadian rhythm saling. Naturallly sleeping well after a day on the water and rising around sunrise.
The passage to Harrisville was greater than 11 hours, a bit longer than I’d hoped, but as luck would have it I had a headwind again, and a strong headwind at that. This passage could easily have been three or four hours quicker with a tail wind. But with an autopilot I was able to go below and read. I began to read General James Doolittle’s “I Could Never Be So Lucky Again”. Every 20 minutes or so I would rise to check for freighter traffic. Motoring is a bit boring, but safe and uneventful.
- the MuseTags: North Channel
