These sporadic entries will cause most of you troubles but here goes.
We left Astoria on a beautiful morning, sunshine, little wind(again) and a following sea. We finally got to appreciate a sleigh ride. There was a beautiful sunset, the stars came out and then...the FOG rolled in, the seas became confused and we were back in a light bulb!!! What gives??? Are we to be cursed on night passages??? We made it to Newport in record time. The waves picked up as did the wind and we got spanked and rolled a lot as we travelled. Neither one of us had any sleep that night. We had looked at a 20 hour run and made it in 16! Not bad except we were coming into an unknown port in the dark and fog, so, we did circles until the sun sort of came out. Into the narrow channel, under the bridge which we almost did not see and a hard to starboard put us almost on top of our dock! There were a couple of real nice people who caught us as we were being blown off the dock. Now safe here in Newport, we have spent the last few days exploring and enjoying the surroundings! Tomorrow we are looking at leaving and moving on to Florence just a 50 mile hike down the coast. The wind and wave predictions will dictate our leave. It does not look so good at the moment as there is a rather large low and trof sitting just south of us in the area we need to go. This is not a bad place to be stuck for a few days, maybe Lynn will let me slow down as we have taken in...
the aquarium
Hatfield Science Centre,
2 light houses
the historic district
and a few other places since sunday morning!!!
Internet is nasty here and keeps going in and out of service with 2 bars being real slow!
Oh well, the life of a new cruiser, time to see how laundry is doing and show the weather to see what we do tomorrow.