The weather is turning iffy, the forecast looks bad, and Heliotrope needs to be back in Gore Bay since Norm wants to haul her. Today looked like the best opportunity in the coming week, so we took off at 9:30, Pax staying home. and rounded the red mark off the new Gore Bay breakwater at 3. Steadily building wind from the south-west, more that we expected. Twenty to twenty-five knots, more or less on the nose, with 4 to six foot seas.

Hard work with eight tough tacks, but still lots of fun, and absolutely beautiful. We did see one other boat—heading downwind.