Week Seventeen
HOME! …Tikaani has been our home for 4 months… our dream home… so this return has mixed feelings. The biggest feeling… WE DID IT! Our next, and soon-to-be, adventure is Grandparenting! Saturday, September 7 In Montreal, docked at Port D’Escale again; it’s right in the old city. Although it is a pain to get to…
Week Sixteen
Westward Ho! Sunday August 30 We sailed through Saturday night arriving in Tadoussac at 5:30am (it was ~24 hours from Quarry Is) in a bank of fog. This is not a harbour to enter in fog and we wanted Kent and Stew to see the iconic lighthouse so we hovered outside, Steve took watch and…
Week Fifteen
Eastbound! Tuesday August 26 Kent, Stewart and Ali arrived at 2pm…thank you Air Canada! The fog lifted enough for Stew and Kent to see Marble Mountain, Corner Brook and Cox’s Cove. But this wasn’t a sightseeing tour, we had 590nm to Quebec City. Broomstick Brew Pub, Corner Brook, was the first stop! A few more…
Week Fourteen
Most Boring Post…:) Sunday August 17 We arrived at the entrance to Bay of Islands just before nautical dawn, so with main only downwind we sailed a leisurely 4kts, waiting for sunrise. It was a perfect end to a great 22 hour sail, complete with whales! With arrival at Bay of Islands, Corner Brook, we…
Week Thirteen
South Coast and Up! Sunday August 10 Woke up early on our last day at Wild Cove to fog and looked out and wondered…“where did I put the bow of my boat”. Waved by to the other boats and waited for a bit more visibility (we didn’t have far to go). By 9am the fog…
Week Twelve
To NL’s South Coast! Yes…What a trip!… Friday, August 1st Soon out of St.John’s Harbour, watching tankers and dodging fishermen, we settled in to motor 15nm south to the Witless Bay Nature Reserve. Forty minutes later, two humpback whales 400m off were breaching –slow, majestic arcs and huge splashes! We just stared in awe. We…
Week Eleven
St.John’s NL Sunday, July 27 We departed RNYC on a calm, sunny morning and motored back up the coast 20nm with light winds on the nose to round Cape Francis. The geology of the local islands in Conception Bay are a stunning display of sheer cliffs with clear geological layers. Once around the Cape the…
Week Ten
Fogo Island and beyond Saturday, July 18 We departed Twillingate (for the 2nd time) and headed east to an anchorage in Hare Bay, the west side of Fogo Island. Had a nice downwind sail with whale sitings! Approaching Fogo Island reminded us of Labrador – stunning, rocky, barren – it’s as if the land broke…
Week Nine!
East to Fogo! Tracking For those of you that have been led astray by the Marine Traffic App (I have no idea why it is not working for us…our instruments appear to be fine) we are no longer in the middle of the Strait of Belle Isle and have not been for weeks. Even the…
Week Eight
Back in Newfoundand! The change from Labrador to Newfoundland is profound yet in many subtle ways. First is the smell. The “smell” in Labrador was (as best I can describe) like “crisp clean linen” and the occasional hint of woodsmoke! Arriving back in Newfoundland, the first thing we noticed was the smell of pine trees,…
Week Seven
Labrador Saturday June 28 It looked like ideal weather, SW wind, for further voyaging north, so at 6am on Saturday morning we left the Port Au Choix with the goal of Red Bay, Labrador, 70nm northwest. The back-up port would be Flower Bay, Newfoundland, 40nm up the coast. We had a fantastic sail up the…
Week Six
Made it to Newfoundland! Our stay in Havre St Pierre, HSP, lasted a little longer than planned -more boat gremlins continued to plague us. You would think that we had done no prior maintenance on this boat but that is just not the case (in our defense)! Still, summer arrived in HSP (20C) and a…
Week Four
Quebec City and Onward Tuesday, June 3 – Quebec City, Port Quebec Bassin Louise Marina Arrive dodging ferries and freighters then negotiated an interesting, dedicated lock into this Marina! Booked 3 nights and planned a tidal exit with an overnight to Cap a l’aigle on Thursday, with wind forecasted south; left marina, headed east. Put…
Week Three
Monday June 2 – Sorel to Quebec City The next morning, the winds had swung sufficiently west that a series of potential anchorages had opened up on Lake St Pierre. As we could not get out of Sorel Marina fast enough (and they could not get rid of us fast enough), we motored out (in…
Week Two
Brockville to Quebec City Saturday, May 24 Arrived Brockville, good weather the next day – Street Market Day! English breakfast at Cosie’s, shopping, walking. Boat ran well, and we are hoping our troubles are behind us! Sunday, May 25 Stewart, son-in-law and Lock Crew, arrived at noon. Had a pub lunch then left to get…
Week One:
Heading out to Newfoundland… The week leading up to departure was consumed by “situations beyond our control,” so planning got a little deferred/disordered and we ended up rushing with final tasks. We had originally set a “target departure date” of the 20th, but as we watched the weather patterns developing (a strong east wind over…
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