Kaimusailing

I tried to sail up the channel but it was too late, I was too tired, the tide must be ebbing. Nothing to do but anchor in the Atlantic Ocean off Fernandina Beach, the beach not the city, in about 40 feet of water. The sea was calm with big swells coming in from tropical storm Karla. My concern about the open anchorage was that a tug and tow could come across, they often do not follow the channels.
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In the morning everything looked different, there were a couple of research vessels anchored landward last night, now the sea was open and empty. There was almost no wind. I wondered if I could even get into port.
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I started sailing with the 150 and light main again, but it was obvious that the added sail area of the 150 gave us more speed but bad tacking angles, so I changed down to the working jib. Now our speed was a bit less, but the tacking angles were tighter, and we were going to do a lot of tacking, the light breeze was almost directly on the nose.
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The wind was predicted to clock to the northeast, so whenever that happened we would have a fair breeze to get into port. For now I worked on sailing Trillium in, using the broad outer areas of the entrance to make long tacks. Slowly we were arriving.
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The wind did shift just as if we had ordered it, and now we could sail along the right side of the channel on starboard tack all the way in. The photo is of the red buoys on the right side of the channel.