What a night! Crashing through crazy waves at close to hull speed, I got very little sleep, but had reason to believe, from what recent weather faxes and the now ancient grib told me, that the wind would weaken soon. And in the morning it did. We reached longitude 127 West where the cooperative Vessel Traffic System kicks in and I contacted Tofino Traffic on VHF channel 74. The operator told me that there was dense fog just ahead and that it was hiding a great number of small sport fishing boats, the kind that would not have AIS transmitters. He gave me a course recommendation that might help us to avoid many of them. We followed his suggested course, sailing with full main and yankee, trying to get the most out of the dying wind.
At UTC 2200, August 5, 2012, we are at 48 31.038 N, 126 18.748 W. Our day's run was 117 miles and we are 71 miles from Neah Bay.
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