Seriously. "We'll just sit tight until the wind goes the right way honey",.. sounds like a luxury, but it's not all it's cracked up to be.

Sure it's great if you've just arrived somewhere and are enjoying exploring an interesting area. But more likely, you've already been there longer than you want to, and the change in wind direction can seem to take forever(say waiting to cross the Gulf stream). Even without a schedule,... there's often a "schedule".

The last time I rode the current coming out of the CCC, I ran into 15 to 20 North, Northwest winds. Those winds meeting the current in that nasty little bay(not my favorite...) quickly dislodged the books on the shelves in the vee berth.

If I'd had the luxury of "time", I could have waited several days in Onset and helped Dave Evans un pack, then left with a favorable wind in a say 4 or 5 days, maybe a week for perfection.

Instead schedule sent me on a great sail to Provincetown(not Maine overnight as hoped), probably the best sail of my entire 2 week sailing trip. That's more my type of sailing, the wind chooses the destination.