Remember my joy at seeing the sun yesterday. Shortly after writing the blog weather started coming in..wind, rain...more wind and rain.
Then we heard a call for help. A boat had lost its rudder (perhaps 6 miles from us). Apparently a large wave hit the rudder and knocked it off. The boat was within 3 miles of rocks and breaking seas..sounds far enough but isn't. Lucky for them there were 2 boats nearby. But the boat with no rudder was spinning in circles which made it difficult to approach. Finally a panga went out and the panga was able to catch a line and give it to another sailboat. A big sigh of relief as now the boat was being towed back. Enough you say?? Yes but then a squall hit. We registered winds up to 36 knots. As this was happening the boats were coming in and trying to anchor. There was a happy ending as everyone got safely anchored and no one was seriously hurt...as I understand it there were cuts and bruises.
During the night we had abit of wind off and on but this morning we have blue skies, no wind and everyone is basking in the lovely weather.
Needless to say we did not go to shore yesterday as the weather was awful. At about 5 we took Patches in and we all were wet. If we had waiting another half hour we would have been fine as the rain stopped and the winds mellowed. Who knew?
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