Weather games
04 March 2012 | Spring Bay, Tasmania
Lesley and Phil
This morning we thought that we would spend the day confined to the cabin waiting for the horizontal rain to stop. However, by lunch the skies were clear, and knowing that the westerlies were coming, we weighed anchor and headed for a more favourable spot. It was an afternoon of change. We started with a comfortable beam reach in about 10 knots and sunshine. Then the wind and seas built with a warm north westerly and we were again zipping along. Eventually we furled the headsail. By now clouds were gathering, and next thing we were getting quite wet as a white out of rain passed. Fortunately we saw it coming in time to get the wet weather gear on. When we got to Spring Bay and anchored, the sun came out again and we enjoyed sundowners on deck before feasting on fresh flathead. We will go further up this bay to Triabunna tomorrow for some provisioning, and after that we are not sure of our plans. The winds are not particularly favourable for going south, so we are not sure where we will go next.