Saturday Aug.16

August 16, Saturday

We woke this morning to steady hard rain. The forecast called for it to clear by noon but as soon as the rain stopped, a heavy fog rolled in. Without the radar working (it keeps blowing fuses), we weren’t ready to try sailing for Little Current. We pulled off the dock and anchored in the bay behind the Marina. I baked soem brownies and Rick and Todd messed around outside the boat.

Todd built his solar powered boat ( a kit Rick picked up for him before we left) and ran it for awhile. Then we went to shore in the dinghy to get some groceries and butane. We met friends of friends from Thunder Bay, and some nice people from Michigan who are also live-aboards on a beautiful Nordic tug called Roxanne.

There are a lot of us! One of the boats was called “Assisted Living”, a 42 foot Endeavour Power Cat from Alabama.  The other one was called “Pour House”, a trawler. Another one was called “Home Free”, a sailboat.

The day cleared up around 4 pm but we decided to stay here for the night. The weather will be better tomorrow and we can clear Little Current bridge and park at Strawberry Island or Heywood Island and make the jump to Tobermory Monday morning. Todd is desperate to get home! He really misses everyone.

Rick called Tobermory Marine to see if there is a place there we can easily dock and remove the old motor and place the new one. We need to talk to them in the morning.  Of course the motor is giving us no trouble at all right now, (except it doesn’t want to start easily). This morning it didn’t even smoke when we started it! 

Right now Todd and Rick are rescuing part of his solar boat that got away!

The sky is on-off cloudy and the winds are from the north so we should have a good couple of days to complete the trip. Kinda sad, but it is also staggering to think that there is only 2 weeks of summer left!

So happy sails!