the water is constantly glassy
The *#$&@* wind is working against us. We sailed overnight from Rimouski and barely made any progress as we spent the night bobbing around on the waves – the wind was nowhere to be found. We had two hour shifts but it was difficult to get any sleep as the sails flapped and the boom smashed around as the waves pushed us back and forth. We wouldn’t have made any progress except that a slight current was in our favour and we were able to slide sideways through the water. We wind came back around 6 am and we made great time until it died again around 1 pm. We bounced and bobbed around for a few hours and decided that it didn’t make sense to spend another night in the same way. We looked at the guide book and decided to head for Mont-Louis to anchor for the night. It is a small village in a valley between a series of mountains. As we got closer huge gusts of wind came as us from different directions as they swept over the mountains and through the valley. Adam thought he saw a 22 on the windex and the mast started vibrating from the force of the wind. Unfortunately when we left this morning the wind was howling in Mont-Louis and nowhere else. We have been desperately trying to maintain a mere 2 knots and although the forecast as been calling for south west winds 15 to 20 knots we don’t seem to be getting any where.