We had thick fog all day long. For anyone who’s never been in fog in a small
boat, you have absolutely nothing to give you any sense of direction and it’s
not a nice experience. These days though
it’s mitigated by modern electronics, including GPS, radar and AIS (link). We were following a boat on AIS all day
long. They were about 3 miles ahead of
us. Small boats only transmit their boat
name infrequently, and so it wasn’t until the end of the day we realized that
the boat we’d been following (but not able to see), were our new friends Dennis and Ank in Bodyguard. We met in Riviere
au Renard, 48 59.72N 064 23.23W, and they kindly
invited us over for dinner, which was Dutch Indonesian and delicious! We swapped adventures since we’d last met,
and they recounted the tale of Ank’s kayak being stolen, Ank, flagging down a
passing car and catching the thief when the kayak fell off the roof and
recovering the stolen goods.
The facilities here were very nice and clean but the harbor
was full of fishing boats, and the water was full of fish guts – uugh!
Ship’s Log: 3181.2nm, Today's log: 39.8 nm, Season total: 727.3nm.
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