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Thursday, July 01, 2004

Bad Planning

Well, the day started out fine. We got a few chores done and left Ballard Mill Marina around 0900 this morning. We locked through to Puget Sound in record time (using the small locks which are much easier than the large locks). We made good time up the Sound, sailing downwind in a 15-18 knot southerly. That is, we were making good progress until we entered Admiralty Inlet and were faced with a 2.5 knot contrary current. That made our speed over ground about 3 knots. We struggled along like that for some time, getting down to 1.7 knots at the slowest, although the speed through the water was much higher. Finally we had had enough of going nowhere slowly and decided to pull into Port Ludlow. We'll leave here early tomorrow and catch the ebb tide to Sydney, BC where we'll check into Canada.