Sweltering hot on the mainland, Saturdays Southerly was a perfect wind to put forward of the beam. Not only to head East but as Air Conditioning. It was a refreshing sail.

When I'm not sailing, I enjoy watching other boats sail by. It's always fun on a JOB mooring in the Fox Island Thoroughfare, to watch boats sailing by. This J46 was killing it!

Come to think of it, that sweltering heat on Saturday should have been a harbinger for the torrential rains that fell on Sunday morning. We sat tight and bet they would lift by mid day. I was reading the Blue Guitar by John Banville(in case you want to know,...). It's a wonderful feeling to sit below while a deluge pounds over head in an old boat, that isn't leaking.

Patience paid off. By noon the skies cleared and an unusual light Easterly gave us the opportunity to sail off our mooring. Tugging the mizzen to starboard as an air rudder, the boat twisted to starboard while we released the mooring. We unrolled the Genny and fell off into the Thoroughfare. Broad reaching the jib and jigger the 3 knots of speed was perfect to dry out in the new sun.

By the time we were nearly in the bay, the wind head spun around to the West. That gave us another close haul home with a couple tacks. Raising the main dropped gallons of rain water onto the decks.