Winds blew all night long, and around midnight as the tides changed, the boat started rocking side to side as ocean swells were making their way into the anchorage. Under these circumstances, the best place to hope for the least rocking is along the centerline of the boat. Trouble is, we don’t have sleeping accommodations in the center of the boat. Harry tried to sleep in the aft cabin which has room for one at present given that we use it for storing our old jib, old radar, and old windlass while Sarah chose to accept the rocking and read for a few hours ( a really good memoir Paula by Isabel Allende) before succumbing to sleep. Not wanting to experience any more side to side rocking, soon after daybreak we moved Juno to the northern anchorage off Hawksbill, picking up a park mooring. This time, there were three other boats in the mooring field besides ourselves. With the wind still blowing 20-25 knots from the east, we decided to stay put for another night. Harry used this time to try to diagnose the source of the leak in the port side chain plate but unfortunately he did not come to any definitive conclusions. No sign of the park warden to collect mooring fees today - perhaps it is not safe to do so again with all the wind.
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