02/07/2020
Pull up anchor at 7:30am, only with jib we sailed into the wide Harvey Bay, I heard there are lots of whales.
The wind stopped at 9 o’clock, and the water is like mirror. I took a nap on the deck in the sun, woke up and found that we are almost still at the same spot. I took a novel to read and waited patiently. We tried spinnaker after lunch but not much better so we took it down.
J asked if there was a formula for seeking the wind. I said yes, it needs 12g toad skins, 100g green mushrooms, two cat whiskers, a little bit of toenail from the rear left foot of an elephant, spitting and mix evenly, and bake in the oven at 180 degrees for one hour, rub it into balls, swallow them with warm water, and then do a folk dance till the wind comes… J said that the wind will eventually come before we collect all these.
At around 3pm, the wind finally came. I said that I smelled the wind. J asked does it smell toad skin and elephant toenail… Spinnaker was raised again and the boat ran again. But we changed our destination, instead of going to Rooney Point we headed for Lady Musgrave Island which is further away. It takes 80 nautical miles to sail, so we have to do night sail again.
Spent 12 hours just in the bay, as if it was reluctant to let us go. In the words of J, we got “bayed”.
We had curry potato claypot rice for dinner. My hands and feet were warmed up for night sailing. I went out to watch and J went in for nap so he can do the midnight shift.
Tonight the moon is very high and bright, and stars are less seen. A few dolphins were chasing our boat in the silver waves very closely, sometimes passing under the bottom of the boat, and sometimes leaping out of the water, one jumped so high, and I applauded.
Tonight is much warmer than last Monday’s night sailing. Blowing a gentle northerly wind, it seems to be able to smell the tropic…
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