Port browning to Bedwell

The 'plan' was to go to Cabbage island at the end of saturna near East point. It is a lovely marine park with a sandy beach and a rocky beach on Georgia strait side. 

Forecast was for light favourable winds. 

We had a bizarre day of winds going from 5 to 25 kts and literarily changing direction by almost 180 degrees. All of this at the junction of Plumper sound and boundary passage ( between Pender and Saturna. 

At one point there was a boat ahead of us going in the same direction but on the opposite tack !

We reefed the main and un-reefed it twice and even had a reef in the jib. We stopped going towards cabbage once we hit steady 25+ it winds. After turning back toward Bedwell the winds died a bit and we started back toward cabbage: same thing again. 

We bailed out by going to Beaumont park in Bedwell harbour. At the entrance to Bedwell we hit steady 20+winds! What made it even stranger was that the current conditions showed only 5 kt winds at Cabbage and we could see boats sailing without any healing over just a few miles to the west of us. 

The photo shows our morning track in the water.( it may not show up well as I am getting interference when I use the IPhone to take the picture ) This whole loop took over 2 hours and we ended up more or less where we started!!

We decided that after our mandated showers on board , we would have our big meal, then hike to top of Mount Norman on Pender and forgo dinner. 

After our sausage, peppers, onions, mushrooms and dried left over potatoes, we rowed to shore and our hike. 

Turns out we missed the final leg to the top, mistaking a long downhill section as the route out to a road. Oh well, something to complete another time. 

Tomorrows plan: don't have one- will see what wind is doing then make the call. 

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Regards,

 Bruce Warren  P. Eng