Becalmed South of Discovery
South wind 10 Kts. Flood tide. Sunny with increasing smoke from BC wildfires.
Leaving from work once again I managed to get out a little earlier today. Raised the main while on the buoy and sailed off my mooring.
Under main and jib, I sailed briskly through Baynes Channel and around the reef marker, Northeast of Chatham Island. I enjoyed a nice, constant Southeasterly wind the length of Discover but when I tacked West, wind and tide conspired against me. The wind died and the flood tide left me standing still, so I powered around the South coast of Discovery Island and tried again in Plumper Passage. By this time I was with the tide, so was doing 2 Kts. but there was no wind so I motored back to Cadboro Bay, putting T2 to bed on the way. (Folding and stowing sails, coiling sheets tying on the sail cover and making fast the standing rigging.)
The forecast called for strengthening Southeaster winds but they never materialized. In fact, just the opposite occurred. Regardless, I was nice to get out and to see the sky again through all of the forest fire smoke.
