Update: We just decided to stay put here another day because the gale warnings are still in effect until tonight.

We're leaving Port McNeill today (we've been here since Friday), and I don't expect that we'll have an Internet connection for a couple of weeks. At the moment, it isn't raining, but there's a moderate southwesterly blowing. That's good to get us to Bull Harbour, where we'll anchor tonight, but we'd like a northwesterly while we're going down the west coast. We'll hang out at Bull Harbour until we get the weather we want, which might be as early as Tuesday, according to the forecasts.

Nothing exciting happened in Port McNeill. We did see several boats that we'd met back at Shoal Bay. And I stopped by another sailboat that was flying the Seven Seas Cruising Association burgee. It's a friendly place, but there isn't much going on. It's the place everyone does laundry since they got new machines a couple of years ago, and I did that too.