So, there we were on a waterfront deck on a beautiful day in Lunenburg planning the rest of our cruise. We would go down the coast and take at least a quick tour into every harbor. What happened, you ask, if you have been watching the tracking page.
Our next stop was the WiFi coffee shop where we learned that Irene had formed and was predicted to run up the East Coast and hit either New England or Nova Scotia. There are few good places to ride out a major storm west of the Lunenburg area and none that I know of. Staying so far east until the storm passed would sink my planned time with Barbara in the St. John River system and Dave had a boat that needed tending in a major storm as well. The Saint John River is well protected and any storm which hits there will likely have lost most of it’s strength along the New England Coast so our cruise turned into a delivery; 63 nm the first day from Lunenburg to Lockport, all under power, bucking into head seas that created a mist of salt spray. The whole boat feels like a Margarita glass rim today. Today, we did 80 miles from Lockport to Yarmouth but with several nice sailing and motorsailing legs. Cape Sable is a lot less fearsome out by the bell.
Earlier, we started the trip with a beautiful sail from Halifax to Schooner Cove in the head of Saint Margaret’s Bay. I hereby declare the cove off Roost Island east of Prospect where we stopped for lunch to be the most beautiful place I have ever deployed an anchor from a sailboat. The surrounding few miles take second place. I’ll be spending a lot of time there next summer. We then had a warp speed broad reach sail across the bay and back and then up to the cove where we were invited in for drinks by a delightful cruising couple who I’m sure I’ll see next year as well. We spent the next day on their mooring stormbound. This cove is about as snug a spot as you will find along this coast and Strider was heeling sharply and jerking in the gusts coming over the high hill.
The sail to Lunenburg was about as good as it gets and we got there in time for lunch ashore and the trip to the WiFi connection that ended the cruising segment of this Nova Scotia adventure.
Our next stop was the WiFi coffee shop where we learned that Irene had formed and was predicted to run up the East Coast and hit either New England or Nova Scotia. There are few good places to ride out a major storm west of the Lunenburg area and none that I know of. Staying so far east until the storm passed would sink my planned time with Barbara in the St. John River system and Dave had a boat that needed tending in a major storm as well. The Saint John River is well protected and any storm which hits there will likely have lost most of it’s strength along the New England Coast so our cruise turned into a delivery; 63 nm the first day from Lunenburg to Lockport, all under power, bucking into head seas that created a mist of salt spray. The whole boat feels like a Margarita glass rim today. Today, we did 80 miles from Lockport to Yarmouth but with several nice sailing and motorsailing legs. Cape Sable is a lot less fearsome out by the bell.
Earlier, we started the trip with a beautiful sail from Halifax to Schooner Cove in the head of Saint Margaret’s Bay. I hereby declare the cove off Roost Island east of Prospect where we stopped for lunch to be the most beautiful place I have ever deployed an anchor from a sailboat. The surrounding few miles take second place. I’ll be spending a lot of time there next summer. We then had a warp speed broad reach sail across the bay and back and then up to the cove where we were invited in for drinks by a delightful cruising couple who I’m sure I’ll see next year as well. We spent the next day on their mooring stormbound. This cove is about as snug a spot as you will find along this coast and Strider was heeling sharply and jerking in the gusts coming over the high hill.
The sail to Lunenburg was about as good as it gets and we got there in time for lunch ashore and the trip to the WiFi connection that ended the cruising segment of this Nova Scotia adventure.
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