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 …
Author: CapnChris
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 …
St. Peters Canal
I’m writing about St Peters now in brief retrospect, as once again it seems that time flies at Mach speed this summer, as we make our way across Nova Scotia’s northern Highlands. For the first time in almost three weeks, yesterday we beat into a stiff 15 knots of WSW wind to go west of …
Louse Harbour and Seal Cove
Seal Cove is an inner reach, reaching deeply into Louse Harbour, where the charted depths don’t exist, none showing often means that there isn't any depth to the water. But not always. Our new OCC friends Bill and Chris, of sv Plover, had been to this secret place before, and know better. Our passage up …
Floppy Prop Upgrade
Fayaway is currently entertaining her crew while bopping around the Bras D’Or Lakes region of Cape Breton Island, Canada. Between reports of regional highlights I’ve been working on a few drafts of practical boat stuff, hoping that you enjoy some of this too. Note that I’ve filed in the “Upgrades and Installs” category. Three years …
SV Fayaway 