Our plan was to leave Quebec City and continue strait to Trois-Rivières.
With strong wind advisory and fighting the tides and currents
we stopped at Portneuf for the night.
With a not so great marine forecast,
we left
Portneuf early as weather/winds forecast for tomorrow was much worse.
Fog…
Poor visibility…
Heavy rain…
Waves swelled to at least 2 metres and winds continued to increase.
Three times water poured into the cockpit.
At one point it was so difficult to control direction, we did a complete 360 °.
From the map below you can see we did a 180 ° – this time intentionally.
My fantastical Captain and life-skipper timed the turn perfectly into the waves.
As conditions continued to worsen,
we headed back to a tiny marina we had seen on the map
(Deschaillons-sur-le-Saint-Laurent)
to hold up for the night or until the weather improved.
Skipper’s prime comment for the day:
‘I felt like a cork with an engine’
…when we are back to civilization, internet and phone service I will fill in the blanks,
but for now we are safe,
warm
but
not so very dry…
Glad I wasn't there. I would have jumped out and swam to shore!! Glad you are both safe and sound and a little wet.
Swimming to shore might have a been a tough go in 2m waves dodging all those BFBs 🙂 but good to be safe, not so very sound and a whole lot wet.