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 …
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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 …
Lunenburg – a N.S. Favorite!
After another 8-hour day of sailing (often motor-sailing) we dropped Fayaway’s trusty hook just a stone’s throw away from a verdant golf course surrounded by thick aromatic trees. We comfortably sandwiched ourselves upwind to a beautiful Shannon 43 from Salem, MA, and to port of a boxy, black barge named Black Beauty. I said to …
New Scotland
Nova Scotia was named by Sir William Alexander, who received a grant to all the land between New England and Newfoundland from King James VI of Scotland (King James I of England) in 1621. The official charter was in Latin and the name "New Scotland" retained its Latin form. After topping up our diesel, and …
