January 28, 2008.

We survived another front which came through last night. The last 2 fronts have swung very quickly through west to blow from the north. Since we had virtually no protection from the west this front decided to linger as it blew from the west.

When the winds piped up it wasn’t the wind that was the problem, it was the sea state. We had plenty of notice of the storms impending arrival but we decided to stay put. We knew that the wind would linger from the west but it would be a daytime event so it shouldn’t be too stressful.

We checked the weather faithfully and the synopsis didn’t really change for several days. The wind would build from the west around noon and start to swing from the north by 2000 hours. All the boats that stayed put let out a little more chain and pretty much everyone stayed on their boats for the latter part of the day.

It was pretty rough with the boats all bucking the waves as they rode out the west winds of 15 to 20 knots. As the wind built to 25 to 30 knots it also swung from the north just as predicted. We were well protected from the north, so while the wind was up, the sea state flattened out and made for a more comfortable setting.

We had a rather good nights sleep and were up and underway the next morning headed for Black Point.