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In life, you aren’t guaranteed much, and living on a sailboat can sometimes accentuate that fact. Mother Nature rules our lives, and sometimes she can be a shifty old gal. Because of this, we watch the forecast like hawks, but local weather can be challenging to predict, and so our stunning new anchorage was short lived. Last week we found ourselves picking our jaws up off the floor at the beautiful coastline the morning after our first overnight sail complete with a couple dolphins viewed from our new found bow seat. The next day however we awoke to an unpredicted shift from NE to NW winds and rapidly deteriorating anchorage conditions. We tried muscling through a day of work, but with the new forecast update now showing the wind building and shifting even more against our favor, we decided to abandon the area entirely. Thankfully the boat sharing the anchorage agreed and has a track that can lead us to their previous anchorage, that would offer much better protection.
The catch? It’s 22 miles in the direction the wind is coming from, it’s supposedly blowing 30 knots out there, and it’s 6pm so the sun is setting. If Courage wasn’t here (yes their boats name is Courage how ironic) I’m not sure what we would have done that evening because the prospect of entering an unknown anchorage alone at night in these conditions didn’t sit well with us. Our good friends the dolphins came out to reassure us that we made the correct decision as we were leaving the anchorage and with the game plan to motor sail a couple miles north and then bare off for a better sailing angle, we were feeling confident in our decision. Lets see how it goes!
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[ BOAT SPECS ]
1984 Passport 42
Hull #33
Displacement 25,000 lbs
Ballast 9,500 pounds of lead (encapsulated keel not bolted on)
Marconi Cutter Rig
Length 42'
Beam 12.75'
Water Draft 6.4"
Air Draft 59'
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