One day you'll look to see I've goneFor tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sunSome day you'll know I was the oneBut tomorrow may rain, soI'll follow the sun Beatles The sun settles later over an anchorage called Goose Island along the remote northeast Nova Scotia coast. Now mid-August, we begin our "windward" trek …
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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 …
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 …