Sunday, August 18, 2013

Tuesday August 13th

We had light winds and flat seas so motoring all day wasn’t too bad.  At least we weren’t pounding into waves like the past few days.  The log impellor was fouled as a result of our grounding yesterday so we had no boat speed instrument.  In addition, the Chartplotter wasn’t talking to the autohelm, so we had to manually steer all day using the compass – just like the good old days! 
We arrived at Escuminac, 47 04.80N 064 53.16W, another fishing harbor and tied up against the wall.  It seems to be first come, first served for the floating docks, and we were about the last boat in!  Once again, the people here were very friendly and we had another offer of a car to take us into town about 5 miles away. 
We also saw a Canadian family we met in Tadoussac – LeeAnne, Brad and, (soon to be 9 years old), Abbey.  They’ve sold their home and are cruising long term, while home schooling Abbey.  It seems we’ve visited almost exactly the same harbours since we both left Tadoussac but this was the first time we’ve been in one at the same time. 
We bought fresh lobster and frozen shrimp from a small fish shop on the dock and dined very well on the lobster.  The frozen shrimp will last a day two…
No update to the Ships log today since it was fouled all day, but we sailed about 40 nm.


Ship’s Log: 3348.8nm, Today's log: 0.0nm, Season total: 894.9nm.

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