left early friday morning with weather forecast calling for 10-15 from SE. Got to point clear and the winds were 30 mph. on the nose with a 3-5 foot sea. the tide was low and coming in so we were bucking and beating into the tide and the wind. The admiral is onboard but far from experienced crew. She is making progress but rome wasn't built in a day. during one of our short tacks trying to beat into the wind the head sail got around the roller and was tangled in itself, just looking. like self destruction. i brought the boat around down wind and on a reach to free it up but no deal, she is wrapped around the roller and the sheets are beating me to death. Finally got the head sail under control, started motor sailing into the wind with short tacks but now the engine is over heating and the boat is pitching pretty wildly from the seas so we are back to sail only. Taking into consideration the expereience level of the admiral , i started to turn back to fly creek and call it off so i would ruin the admirals progress she's made in sailing. Murphy's law strrikes again . the main halard is fouled and the main isnt going back up. Now we are pretty much unable to sail and the moror is over heating with short breaks to cool down. just under head sail alone we let the engine run to assist us. Then i noticed our SOG was never over 2 mph btween the tide, seas and head wind so i checked our fuel. We now have abt 3-4 gals of diel and abt 14 miles to the ditch and calmer seas. The sail halyards still fouled and cant go up the mast in these kind of seas. The boat actually came out of the water and landed pretty hard a couple of times but I kept at it. Make a long story short, a 4-5 hr trip to LuLu's turned into 12 hours. Many thanks to the guys at LuLu's for bringing me out 5 gals of diesel to insure me making it ito the canal without running out of fuel. " BOAT US wouldnt do it . " Spent the night at LuLiu's recooping and repairing halyards and blocks so today we are head east for pirates cove or big lagoon. Fair winds.
