Day: July 16, 2020

16/07/2020

After enjoying the perfect bacon and avocado on toast for breakfast, we set off for Pearl Bay. J pulled up the anchor all by himself, raised the mainsail and slowly sailed out of the small bay. At first, wind was a bit confused, and the goose wings kept flapping. We might be in the wind shadow caused by coastal cliffs. After a while, wind gradually began to stabilize, and the waves from behind helped to push the boat.

Sitting on the stern of the boat basking in the sun, I saw another sailing boat approaching us in distance, getting closer and closer. J took a binoculars had a look and said that boat only had its main sail but flapping. We had two sail up sailing at good speed how come they were faster than us, they must have started the engine, the main sail was just a decoration, we call it cheating. Later, they surpassed us and entered the entrance of Pearl Bay in front of us.

Before 2pm, it was our turn to enter the bay entrance. It was only about 150 meters wide and we had to go against the wind. We made a few nice tacks and entered smoothly, and we stopped right beside the cheating boat. The entire process of anchoring was controlled by wind without using the engine too, just to show them what is real sailing and who is real sailor. After showing off skills and feeling proud, we had yummy vegetable pancakes while admiring the view of Pearl Bay, watching the birds flying, fish and turtle swimming, as a reward for not using the engine whole day.

For dinner, I made braised pumpkin with veggie protein mince, add a spoonful of Lao Gan Ma black bean chilli paste when marinating minced meat, and it was another good meal to go with rice.