A bit rolly in the early morning hours as the wind swings to the west and wraps around Windmill Point and waves reach into Paul Cove. 7:15 raising sail as the sun crests the horizon.
Beautiful clear morning. Sailing south at 2.9. 7:50 out on the open water of the Honga River, 4.0 with lower Hooper Island to starboard. 8:20 Hooper Strait Light to starboard, Bishops Head to port, 5.3 with excellent wind.
8:45 across the strait, Bloodsworth Island to starboard, calmer water in the lee of the island, 4.8. Surprised to see there are no crab pots in the shallows along shore.
9:25 reach the south end of Bloodsworth Island with a rough crossing to South Marsh Island. Finally see deadrises working crab pots. Once in the lee of South Marsh Island, calmer water and making 5.4. 10:00 round up and tuck in a reef to make the crossing of Kedges Strait.
10:15 pick see Kedges Strait lighthouse. 10:25 in the strait, rough and choppy, doing 5.4.
10:40 approaching the shallows off the north end of Smith Island, fall off to the southeast around the shallows, calmer water in the lee. 11:15 easy sailing and 5.6 tracking down the east side of Smith Island.
Reach the south end of Smith Island 11:30, 5.0 and choppy now that we are on open water. Looking south I sort through the scene ahead of us. Once again I think I see Watts Island to the south but after checking gps realize it is Port Isobel, the heavily wooded island just to the east of Tangier Island. 12:10 tack into the calmer water behind the shoal that runs from Smith Island to Tangier Island.
12:30 tacking close-hauled towards Tangier. 1:30 calmer in the lee of Tangier Island. 2:00 tack off the eastern side of Port Isobel, then a series of tacks into Cod Harbor.
Pelican show me the floats of an oyster farm on the edge of Cod Harbor, stay well clear of them. A few more tacks up into the anchorage protected to the south and west by a sand spit. Anchor down south of Whale Point at 3:40.
37.46 NM
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