Monday, August 13th

We went ashore to explore more of the hiking trails in the morning. 

The last several days had been overcast and not very windy, and since we rely on sun or wind to charge our batteries, they’ve been getting pretty low lately.  So we decided to go to Mooneys Bay Marina, 44° 47.20N 73° 21.98W, to replenish batteries, water and food.  We beat out of the bay to round the red buoy marking a reef we had to round before heading north to Mooneys Bay.  Usually, we tack when the water depth shallows to 20’ and we decided to do the same today when tacking toward the reef.  Ready about, 20’, Lee oh, uh oh, 15’, 10’, 6’, bang!  Then, after looking at the contours on the chart more closely, we realized that the reef was like a vertical wall rising out of the sea bed.  Fortunately, with light winds we weren’t sailing too fast and were half way through the tack before hitting, so no damage done.  Hopefully we learned a lesson.  In Georgian Bay last year, with granite rocks everywhere we never touched bottom, and today’s experience was the third time this year!  Let’s hope it’s the last this season. 

We tied up in the marina, plugged in, went shopping by bike, had showers and hamburgers for dinner. 

Ship’s log: 2156.9 Today's log: 5.0nm, Season total: 521.4 nm