Shelburne Harbour Yacht Club (Marina)

Tuesday, August 11, 2015
43 45 472 N
65 19 382 W

Up at 5:15 AM, engine start at 5:45 and underway at 6:05 AM. The anchor chain was very muddy. Perfectly calm and sunny morning. The Atlantic was nice all day, just big swells from the SE with on and off dense fog. Tide Hikers auto pilot ran well all day. We crossed with a large steel fishing boat in the fog, he was good enough to call us on the radio. Arrived at Shelburne about 4:45 PM, after 78 NM.

Dawn, hosing the mud off the anchor chain

I am excited as today we crossed into the NE edge of my USA chart package on the "Polar Navy" chart plotter. We have not been able to use this chart plotter since venturing into Canada, and I like to do my route planning on this set up.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Not much going on. Wet and foggy. Walked into town for lunch and to visit the local museums. Cards on Tide Hiker.

Plenty old buildings

Nova Scotians make great woodpiles

The start of a "dory" 

The cloud has lifted - at least a few feet - we can actually see!

Thursday August 13, 2015

We are still here - long story. Today is Barb's birthday so we all went out for breakfast at a local spot. Very nice plus Don shouted! Plus we are invited to drinks and dinner on Cavara tonight.

Later in the morning we unloaded the bikes and went looking for a bike path thru the forest. Found it and it was very pleasant ride. The path must have been an old railway right-of-way as it was pretty flat, and included some bridges over running water.

We ended up at a small County Fair. We checked out the pigs and chickens, but our main interest was the ox pull competition. We checked the beasts out in their stalls and were quite impressed - large, well groomed and decorated.

The ox-pull itself was quite a treat. They were expected to pull a steel sled (it weighed 1,000 lbs itself) that was progressively stacked with 200 lb weights. The ox team had to pull the sled 1 yard. The strongest team we saw pulled a total of 9,200 lbs. The oxen seemed quite well trained - they would turn, back up and pull on command.

Tomorrow we expect to head around Cape Sable and into the Bay of Fundy. The weather looks good. The tides and current look a bit tricky but Don is working all that out so I have a free ride.