Don’t have to type February anymore and, in Canada, the weather is showing signs of warming. This is a bit of a big day. We’re going to move Milu onto the dock after doing a bit of a sea trial. The sails are up and working, the motor is maintained and seems to be purring,…

Friday is Yoga Day so we’re up with the gang at at the dock by 7:45 am for the walk to Grand Anse. I swim while the girls do yoga but this time I know to keep access to our bag so I don’t have to stand around in my tri shorts until the girls…

Today I am tackling a job I’ve wanted to do for a while – changing the fuel filters and pump impellor. The pump impellor is a beast due to it’s location – under the sink and behind a bunch of wires and pipes. I’ve never done one before but eventually get it done. Next on…

Wake up to the strangest sound outside the boat. What could that be? Scary as hell. I look out a hatch, can’t see anything while Christy goes out back, says there’s a dinghy there. I look, it’s George’s dinghy. He’s a day early to dive and scrape our bottom. No worries. I drop Christy off…

We take the dinghy over to Woburn and park at the Island View dock. Stop at the Treasure Trove to see what they have but don’t buy anything. Grab the bus into town where we go to Ace, Island Water World and Higgins. We buy some stuff to hopefully catch lobsters. The route is: We…

Well it’s Christy’s birthday and it starts off well with Joe coming over in his dinghy and inviting us to a combo party on his power cat. Cathy and Tim (Guelph couple on a non-sailing sailboat near us) are leaving tomorrow, it’s somebody else’s birthday too and he knows about Christy. I call Frankie in…

Another sky blue day. Temperatures have been very comfortable, even great for sleeping without turning the fans on! We forego the Sunday Morning Walking Club having got enough exercise last night. Today they’re walking to The Brewery – couple beers there at 8:30 in the morning then on to Grand Anse for a couple more…

Today is grill day at The Cove so we plan to meet Amanda and Jim there just after lunch. This is good timing since we plan to do the Night Hash tonight and don’t want to get that extreme exercise on a full dinner stomach. First though, I dinghy Christy in to Secret Cove to…

Crack of 6:15 am the VHF goes off with an “All ships all ships, we’ve run aground in Mt. Hartman Bay”. A few of us respond and head over to the lee shore where a yacht has run aground in sand after their mooring broke – she was a bit windy last night. Luckily it…

Beautiful weather again. Seems the winds have calmed down. Today we do some chores and in the afternoon dinghy over to Hog Island to explore a bit. We’ve never walked on it, I used to think the bar owners could drive to the beach from the bridge but apparently not. We find the trail from…