triathlon by the sea

I did this triathlon this past weekend in Dalvay. this is the 3rd or 4th time i have done this race and almost every year, the swim is a probalem. The north shore of PEI in August is just not suitable for having a triathlon. This year, it was terrible as you couldn't see the buoys because of the waves and I had no idea of where to swim toward. The swim took me 40 minutes which is a lot longer than a half ironman swim would take me. I had a rough swim in a race in Monaco in a half ironman with big waves which took me 37 minutes but this race was 500 metres shorter and it took me 40 minutes.