49.30 N
142.12 W
101 NM - 539 to go!
Happy Canada Day! We celebrated Canada's 151st birthday this morning with pancakes and maple syrup. We feel fortunate to be Canadians in this world where there is so much unrest and uncertainty.
Last night the winds dropped off around midnight and we had to motor until late morning. Now we are gliding along in serene seas, straight north on a beam reach in 10 knots of winds, maintaining approximately 5 knots of speed. Long may it continue! The weather prognosis is that we will enjoy these reasonable easterly winds for the next day or so, then the winds will strengthen and shift to the north - not great for us, as I mentioned before - we do not sail directly into the wind. We expect we will have to bear off east and, in the unlikely event we can't make northing, we have been exploring our charts and guidebooks for possible landfalls to the south of Sitka. We can only take it one day at a time and make decisions accordingly. If we are fortunate, we could make landfall on Friday. Hey! I hope so! We are running out of beer!
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