August 13-15

August 13- Wednesday- There is a new motor waiting for us at Yanmar in Toronto!

We spent the day working around the boat and getting stuff ready to move. We filled the fuel tank and diesels cans and Geoff brought us a gas can in case we need to push her with the dinghy....been there done that!

Chuck spent the last two days ferrying us around to get the extras we need and we have been trying to give Todd land time. He is starting to get homesick.

August 14-Thursday

We left the Soo at 10:30 am ... had to wait for the marina staff to show up to get gas for the dinghy and turn in our keys. It was a following sea and wind all day but going down the channel we couldn’t sail. There were too many ships moving and with a following sea, we had to use the motor for more control.  The winds picked up and as we turned at the bottom of St. Joe’s Island, we were crossing the waves. It got pretty rough.  We got into Milford Haven, a long protected inlet at the east side of St. Joe’s and went as far in as we could get. We spent a half hour trying to get the anchor set so we wouldn’t drift out. We passed a pretty Hans Christian on our way in anchored in the mouth of the inlet.

It was windy most of the night but the sky was clear all day and all night.

August 15 – Friday

Up early and off the anchor at 7:45... which is actually late for us.  The day was clear and the winds not too bad. That damned motor started without a problem and the oil leak that Rick patched was holding just fine! We headed out to the channel and headed east again. Of course there was a cloud of black smoke, then blue smoke for a bit as we took off.

The winds were light but behind us and we had a following sea again. By noon were already at Meldrum Bay so we decided to keep going and made it into Gore Bay by 6:45... about 60 miles.  We used almost a full tank of gas and very little oil. I always remember the line in Captain Ron...”diesels sure love their oil!” So we top it at every stop!! She ran for 10 hours today without so much as a cough! AND we used only 15litres of fuel.

BY the time we got to Gore Bay the winds were at 15-20 knots and we were surfing down the waves...not the best sailing but we got up to 10 knots at times.

Tomorrow if it is not too bad we will go to Little Current; if the weather is too bad, we will go out to the anchorage and wait it out. So talk to you tomorrow.

Happy Sails!