We started motoring after a quick breakfast, heading today for Grand Manan Island, another of New Brunswick’s islands. The bay was flat calm, we waved goodbye to Lubec on our right, and Campobello Island on our left. We passed under the FDR memorial bridge, this time with less excitement and more room to spare. A …
Alright, so Canada doesn’t share their charts as willingly as the U.S., and we’re out of U.S. charts. I found these, the bad news is they look like this. The good news is I can link to specific coordinates, so there is no searching a huge chart for the relevant area anymore. We woke up …
We slept in a bit to recover from the long day, and rowed to shore to run errands in town. Yarmouth was the largest town we’d visited so far, with a busy waterfront and main street dotted with shops and businesses. I spectated while Andrew enjoyed a coffee, and we exchanged some dollars for monopoly …
We motored out of the harbor and entered thick fog just offshore, just before high tide to ride the current south. We put the sails up and stared down the thirty-five miles before us. The fog cleared before long but as we headed up wind towards Clark’s Harbour the tidal current changed directions and forced …
We left Clark’s Harbor with the ebbing tide in order to ride the current on the sail to Cape Negro Island. This was the first day since reaching Nova Scotia that we would be sailing north up her eastern coast. We started south though and as we got out past the southern tip of Cape …
We left Ingomar a little after ten and quickly found ourselves in big swell and light winds. From my perspective, sat in the cockpit, the largest waves peaked just over the horizon. I estimated that put the swell at six feet. I teetered down through the companionway to grab my camera from the v-berth, and …
