Chilly weekend on Puget Sound - Tacoma to Poulsbo

Since Veteran's day was a holiday, I decided to take Monday off and make a 4 day weekend.  My friend, Kevin invited me to join him on a trip to Poulsbo from Commencement Bay by way of Blake Island.  When we checked the weather report on Friday morning, it was a bit surprising. We knew there was some wind and rain on it's way, but there was a gale warning for the afternoon.  So we quickly got ready and left anyway.  His Fuji 35 could easily handle the possible winds and its always good to practice some sailing in higher winds, right?
We did have a bit of trouble when the wind gusted to over 30 towards the end of the sailing afternoon, and a slow gybe(?) with some choppy waves that picked up due to the winds, meant some tense time when the jib got wrapped wrong and then started flogging wildly.  Fortunately it looks like only the sun cover was damaged, but it does need to be repaired.  It was a very busy day of downwind sailing up Colvos Passage and we were glad to be safely docked at Blake Island.
The wind picked up some during the night, but by morning it had died to almost nothing. There were still 20+ knots predicted for the afternoon but they didn't start until we were over half way to Poulsbo.  We didn't try sailing at that point, we were almost there and the winds were still pretty strong.
After docking safely at the Poulsbo Public Marina we headed to the downtown shops to look for the famous bakery Sluy's Bakery; oh so many goodies to chose some.  Later we had dinner out at the That's Some a Italian restaurant.
On Monday we motored all the way back to Foss Harbor Waterway in Tacoma.  Winds were light and didn't start blowing until we got to Commencement Bay.