St. Peter's to Louse Harbour

Going from Halifax to Cape Breton is a pretty nice trip usually accomponied by our predominant SW wind, however returning to Halifax from CB is another story and can really be a nasty trip if the weather is not in your favour. I had been watching the weather for a few days local, marine and predictwind my app that helps with departure planning. Today Sunday they were calling for N-NW 20-25 with 2-3 meter waves, and Monday was NW 25-30 backing to SE on Tueaday and then 20 + out of the SW for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and thats not great! So we decided that we would make some miles today even thought the seas were pretty big. e wentb through the St Peter's lock at noon and made our way out towards Chedebucto Bay. The wind was in our favour so we were soon able to shut down the engine and carry on under full sail. We had a great sail across the bay and the seas didnt bother us to much until we cleared Andrews Channel just beyaond Canso and made our way back out into the Ocean. Our originall plan was to anchor in Portage Cove at the SW end of Andrews passage, but we had quite a roll and were unfamiliar with the entyrance so we decided to carry on to Louse Harbour which looked a bit easier to get into. When we changed plans to carry on for another 5 miles to Louse harbour we had to get back out in the ocean and it was around 1700 hrs so we had to get going. The waves were quite big as we re-entered the ocean some as big as 5 meters and Rose Lee was riding up and over them and down the other side. You know the waves are big when your whoe 47 foot boat can ride up one side and down the other. As soon as we turned we were able to get some sail up to stabilize the boat for our run down to Louse Hrbr we everaged between 8-9 until we were ready to turn in which only took less than a hour to reach. With the big rollers coming in  we slowed the boat as much as possible but still were doing 7 knots as we enters the narrow entrance to Louse hbr. Once we made it in through the entrance we found a nice protected cove and set the anchor very securley knowing that the wind was coming up tonight (this was a perfectly protected cove from all sides and was rated R3 so I decided I dindt need an anchor snubber:(. I regretted my decision when I was on deck rigging a snubber at midnight with 25 knots of wind, thunder and lightening crashing all around (I won't make that mistake again). We never got much sleep on Sunday night, no waves but continuous thunder squalls with lots of wind.