Another low key day. We started the day by fixing the halyard. It was easy and only took about 10 minutes.
After we relaxed for awhile. We checked the weather and one site predicted 20-30 knots winds and the other, typically more accurate, predicted 17-23 knot winds. I suggested we head out and at least sail around , enjoy the boat for one last day. So we did. We unclipped the main and pulled the anchor. We had just motored out of the harbor when Rick noticed we had wrapped the halyard again, this time on the other stay.
Weird coincidence that it happened two days in a row and never before on this trip. Fate was telling us that the sailing portion of our trip was OVER!
We headed back into the harbor, reanchored, and in about 10 minutes fixed the halyard. This time we listened to fate and stayed put. It was a good thing because the wind really increased. We saw readings of 21 knots on our instruments while sitting in the harbor and our weather website said it was blowing 27 knots outside the harbor. In high winds the rigging on the boat starts to sing. We experienced it here and in Greece. By the time I thought of taking a video so you could heard it the wind had mostly died down. At its peak the “singing” was much louder.
We relaxed for the afternoon. I finished my book, the Gift of Rain (I recommend it).
That evening we had another amazing sunset.
We had dinner on the boat and Rick used up as much of the food as he could so it was a bit of hodge podge. I had downloaded a bunch of shows from Amazon so we watched Jim Gaffinan, a very funny, low key comedian .