Friday 24th July.

Another lay day at Baddeck and a few jobs completed.  Ron cycled out to the bus depot on Teresa’s bike to pick up his bike tyre, only to find that Henry also drove out to pick it up.  Never mind – it was only a couple of miles away and a nice day for a ride.  And the bike is now fixed.

Brenda and Vin had a suspected problem at their masthead, so Ron volunteered to be pulled up in the bosun’s chair.  Didn’t find the suspected problem, but found another problem instead – with the genoa halyard sheave.  Probably not a big deal since, these days, with roller furlers, genoa halyards are not in frequent use. 

Teresa defrosted the fridge, cleaned and vacuumed the boat and we both went grocery shopping. 

Teresa and Ron spent several hours at the Alexander Graham Bell museum.  He was an amazing man, well know of course for inventing the telephone, but he did in fact invent a lot of other things.  He started out in life teaching deaf people to speak, and married one of his students – Mabel Hubbard, who lost her hearing at the age of 5 after surviving scarlet fever.  She was also an amazing woman, learning to speak fluently not only in English, but also in Italian, French and German.  He also built the first Canadian plane, a hydrofoil boat that at one time had the world water speed record of over 100 mph (in 1919). 

On the way back, we saw Julia, a beautiful yawl owned by Toy and Jack.  She’s on the BWSC cruise and so we snapped a photo. 

In the evening we all (Brenda, Vin, Barbara, Mike, Teresa and Ron) went to a play at the museum about the Bells life together.