Kelly and I wanted to explore other areas on Cape Breton Island - ones perhaps more difficult to reach from within the lakes aboard Fayaway or our little chariot Korykory. Amongst his many offerings, our de facto 'Port Captain' of Baddeck, Paul, kindly reserved for us a rental car in Sydney, about a 45 minute …
Month: August 2024
Aquamap & Garmin Sharing
A practical how-to, for sharing data between plotting devices. Another interim technical post. Warning ⚠️ If you’re not actively cruising and have no interest in Garmin chart plotters nor plotting routes then you might want to skip this blog post. It’ll be a bore. I find this method extremely useful, and wish we learned it …
Exquisite Surroundings
After cruising Cape Breton Island for three weeks, it’s time to start moving again. The plan now is to just keep going west, visiting even more gorgeous undeveloped seaside anchorages. We’re catching whatever light breeze we can get along the way. Given the predicted benign conditions overnight: diminishing mild southern breeze, almost no swell and …
Baddeck
St Peters and Baddeck are the only full-service locations on the Bras D’Or Lakes. Sure you’ll find other communities and local markets here and there, but for the most part it’s fairly rural. Baddeck has a practically new public dock - but it’s not free, and we found, often busy. Fortunately we found very good …
Arm Of Gold
After spending a couple recuperating days visiting St Peters, reprovisioning and enjoying conversation with the jovial Marina manager Gerry, we cast the mooring line, meandered back east past the canal entrance and on toward the larger portion of The Bras D’Or Lakes. Early morning Fayaway on the ball at St. Peters Marina. Adapted from various …
SV Fayaway 