I woke early with the idea of being at the fuel berth at Porto Montenegro when it opened. After a pot of proper coffee and a banana, and checking that the forecast across all the weather models still showed basically no wind, I tuned the engine on about 7:10am and was anchor up - unsurprisingly needing to motor over it - at about 7:20. I arrived at the fuel berth and I was second there after a rib. Typically it had started to rain on the approach to the berth but as I got closer no wind at all became about 15 knots apparent. I formulated Robinson's Destination Law. If there is no wind on the way, there is always wind at the destination. Fortunately the berth was positioned ok for the wind and I filled up about 50 litres in the jerrycans and about 80 litres in the tank. I started motoring at about 5 knots towards Porto Novi and out of Boka Bay. As I passed Porto Novi I had my first suspicion of wind and by the time I was approaching the island at the entrance to the bay I had about 16-18 knots on the port beam. The rain was now heavy. A sailing vessel radio'ed me on 16 asking what the conditions were like inside the bay, he had come I think from Croatia. He said Windy was showing 'a.lotnof wind in the bay'. I told him around Tivat was calm, all on 16. I started hearing thunder and saw the sky light up somewhere with lightning. I was still in the bay but the wind was around 25 knots on the beam..I told myself that it was windy there when I came into the bay and this was probably a local thing. The lumpiness you would expect at the mouth of a bay was now pronounced and continued as I headed out. I noticed three or four speedboats heading out to the blue cave full of bedraggled punters which gave me some heart. The sea remained lumpy and the wind frequently gusted up close to 30 knots - I think I saw 28 a few times - but I was wrong to expect the sea would calm beyond the entrance. Shortly beyond this point is the entrance to Lustica Bay (my name for it I think, Bigova is in there) and because of the strength of the wind from my port and the fetch all the way into the bay, combined with the swell from the other side, the waves became biggish, confused and with a short period. The boat was thrown around a lot. I was pleased I stowed pretty much everything for sea so not much was spread all over. Some was. The washing up liquid bottle had fallen over and oozed everywhere for example. By this point the lightning had stopped but the rain was incessant and heavy. I had unrolled a bit of Genoa which gave me some extra speed and helped to steady the boat I am sure  The wind was on the beam but it was not in any way safe to climb onto the deck and get the sail up, even clipped on. I was making about 6 knots with engine and sail and eventually I passed the bay. The wind became more on my port quarter as I approached Budva. There was still a big sea but it was now much more behind me.Thw wind has dropped to 12 - 18 knots apparent and it continued to drop as I headed towards Bar. The seas began to calm although a noticeable swell remained and about 5 miles out of Bar the rain stopped. I radio'ed ahead and was given an alongside berth. It was just spitting as I tied up but there was no wind. The end of an eventful passage. The boat performed immaculately. I made some sensibly cautious decisions 

Boka Bay To Bar

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