The plan was to leave St. Peter’s and head to Baddeck on the northern section of the lake, stay a day or so there and visit some points of interest. We called for a reservation, but no space was available until Sunday, so we decided to change course for Marble Mountain, where slip availability would […]
Archive for August, 2010
St. Peter’s
Aug 13th 2010Cruise Log & Down East Loop & Location
We arrived at St. Peter’s about 1330 and tied to the end of the pier at the Lions Club Marina. It’s a small marina, very nicely kept, and very pleasant folks there. We arrived early enough to clean the salt from the boat from our previous few days runs and do a bit of laundry […]
Inhabitant’s Bay
Aug 12th 2010Cruise Log & Down East Loop & Location
Our original plan to cruise the 97 nm from Pictou to St. Peter’s didn’t quite work out. Our progress was slowed somewhat by currents that kept our speed below 7 kts most of the time, so instead of pushing on, we opted to anchor for the night and complete the run in the morning. We […]
Escape from Pictou
Aug 10th 2010Cruise Log & Life aboard
We’ll finally will be leaving Pictou bright and early Wednesday. Not that it’s an unpleasant place, it’s not. We were ready to leave Saturday morning, but Fed Ex and the Municipal marina seemed to be conspiring to keep us dockside. The electronic Canadian charts we ordered came from Baltimore, go figure. Because of poor communications, […]
Pictou, Nova Scotia
Aug 7th 2010Cruise Log & Down East Loop & Location
We crossed the Northumberland Strait again after leaving Charlottetown Thursday morning. We anticipated a bumpy ride with winds predicted to be 15-20 kts, but winds were mostly on our beam and sea conditions were not nearly as rough as we expected, and we had a rather pleasant cruise. We arrived in Pictou mid-afternoon, and hailed […]
Charlottetown, PEI
Aug 5th 2010Cruise Log & Down East Loop & Location
8308 We made our getaway from Summerside under partly sunny skies, and calm seas, but the wind kicked up as the sun climbed behind thickening clouds, and as we turned east toward Confederation Bridge, the wind was up to 15 kts. Our course had the wind just on our starboard quarter, so we had a […]
Shediac & Pointe du Chêne
Aug 2nd 2010Cruise Log & Down East Loop & Location
We departed Mirimichi 0700 on a still-incoming tide, but only bucked the current for about an hour or so. We had decided to press to Shediac, a 92 mile run and a very long cruising day. With favorable currents we could be there well before dark. The current didn’t do too badly, and the weather […]