I rigged up Gypsy and made a into the marina to pay for the mooring and hopefully grab a pizza. The guys at the marina were great and gave me a lift up to the pizza shop to grab the pizza, it would have been quite a walk. When I returned to Rose Lee with my catch Cameron must have changed his mind and was anchored close by. We were to tired to even visit and settled in for pizza and wine with visions of Cape Breton dancing in our head.
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We woke up this morning in Liscombe to heavy fog. Did I mention we haven't installed any radar yet on "Rose Lee". We found a brand new radome and display in one of the lockers but it hasn't quite made the list yet for installation. Oh well we did know the waters pretty well and were confident in our charting skills. We back up our chart plotter with paper charts and three hand led gps's. We are also pretty diligent about keeping a proper log which we update every hour with our position and any other pertinent information (observations, wind, sog, sea conditions etc...). If we have a major power failure we can go old school and still carry on safely. We departed at at 0630 from the wharf in Liscombe and slowly motored out the river in thick fog which looked like it would burn off by 0900. The river widens out quit a bit before you get back into the ocean, however the fog remained thick and continued along in our watery world which was about 400' in diameter as a result of the fog. Other than our updated position on the chart the only way we could tell that we had re-entered the ocean was due to the sea state. We had a big rolling ocean which came at us from the side and bow causing quite a bit of motion on board (smooth but excessive). I popped a couple the new ginger all natural gravol which we have found excellent and no side effects. Fog! Fog! Fog! pretty well sums up the day no wind motoring along in thick fog sounding the horn every minute or so to make our presence known. We made decent time running at about 6.5 knots. Our total passage to Canso was about 50 miles in length, about 30 miles into our trip we received a call on the VHF from Cameron at 0130, who was a little ahead of us and decided that they had enough of the motion and were turning into Whitehead Harbor. We said our good byes and carried on for Canso. As we neared Canso our next hurdle was getting through St. Andrews channel which is challenging in clear calm condition and not recommended in fog or rough weather (this is a difficult passage very difficult). Joyce was on the bow as we entered the channel giving me instructions a bit to port a bit to starboard small island dead ahead. Visibility was down to about 200' and we were inching along at 3 knots which seemed fast! When we finally got back into safe water and out of St. Andrews channel you could hear our collective sigh if you were any where near bye (unfortunately we wouldn't have been able to see you). Just three more miles and we would be in Canso, yay. We grabbed a mooring off the Canso marina at 1810 completely exhausted from a pretty stressful trip where our navigation was put to the test and we passed. I rigged up Gypsy and made a into the marina to pay for the mooring and hopefully grab a pizza. The guys at the marina were great and gave me a lift up to the pizza shop to grab the pizza, it would have been quite a walk. When I returned to Rose Lee with my catch Cameron must have changed his mind and was anchored close by. We were to tired to even visit and settled in for pizza and wine with visions of Cape Breton dancing in our head.
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