{"id":4868,"date":"2023-08-06T10:02:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sailingtruenorth.net\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2024-10-09T06:12:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T10:12:36","slug":"day-42-reality-sets-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailingfregata.com\/?p=4868","title":{"rendered":"Day 42 &#8211; Reality Sets In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve been lucky so far. Other than a few challenges, it\u2019s been pretty smooth sailing (ha ha\u2026. get it?). Well that may change for a while. We were dreaming of sailing into the Bras d\u2019Or Lakes on Cape Breton as the next phase of our journey. Some say this is the most beautiful cruising area in North America.  Today the wind is blasting out of the south, scuttling our plan to transit the Canso Canal, the Lennox Passage and the St. Peter\u2019s Canal into the Bras d\u2019Or today. There are a few days of reasonable conditions coming up, making it possible to do that on Sunday. However, if we do, we would be stranded in the Bras d\u2019Or for a week or more. The wind will return to blasting out of the Southwest, the exact direction in which we need to travel, for as far out as weather forecasts show. While there are worse places to wait out a weather window, that could stress our schedule. So, we made the hard decision to miss the Bras d\u2019Or and use the favorable weather window to sail on down to Halifax, where we\u2019ll wait it out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So how, we hear you ask, do you spend a day at anchor, waiting out bad weather? Well, you do maintenance on the boat, you read, play guitar, make phone calls, ride the dinghy to a nearby fishing port to dump the garbage that\u2019s been accumulating, plan the next legs of your cruise, clean, etc. We had a skippers\u2019 meeting on African Queen IV to work on routing for the next days followed by board games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jon and Cheri\u2019s freezer pooped out a few days ago so they\u2019re desperately trying to consume food before it goes bad. We\u2019re always glad to help out friends in need. So after Friday&#8217;s delicious grilled pork chops and risotto, last night we enjoyed pasta bolognese and shepherds pie. It\u2019s hard, but one makes sacrifices for one\u2019s dear friends. Once we\u2019ve consumed all their thawed food, we\u2019ll be able to reciprocate, although it&#8217;s a hard act to follow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tomorrow, we attack the first leg of 110 nautical mile passage to Halifax. So sad to miss the Bras d\u2019Or. But you can&#8217;t take on Mother Nature&#8230; she always wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sailingtruenorth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Wind-1-1-1024x781.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1341\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sailingtruenorth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Wind-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1342\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In sailing, you always need a Plan B so that when Mother Nature doesn&#8217;t agree with you, you can adapt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2023-down-east-circle-route"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailingfregata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailingfregata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailingfregata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailingfregata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailingfregata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sailingfregata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4930,"href":"https:\/\/sailingfregata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/4930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailingfregata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailingfregata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailingfregata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}