Saturday, August 10, 2013

Thursday August 8th

We left Gaspe and bid “Tot Ziens” to Dennis and Ank.  They are a really nice couple and we will miss them.  But we will meet again!





We had thick fog shortly after we set off and we were motoring in very light winds.  After an hour, the wind picked up and Ron hoisted the sails, turned off the engines and ran over a lobster, (or something), line which wrapped around one of our props.  It took a while to disentangle ourselves and we ended up cutting and retying the line so the fishermen wouldn’t lose their pot.  We continued sailing and had a tough beat against the tide to Anse a Beaufils, 48 28.32N 064 18.45W.  (Beating, means zigzagging against the wind.  We sailed 50.2 nm to cover a distance over the ground of 31.2nm).  But at least we were sailing!
Tied up against the wall amongst a motley collection of pleasure boats, fishing boats and tour boats.



Ship’s Log: 3268.1nm, Today's log: 50.2nm, Season total: 814.2nm.

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