Christy and Perry Saving the World

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…

Another great day, the wind has calmed a bit it seems and the temperatures are quite pleasant. We even use the sheets and sometimes a blanket at night! We head over early to Clarke’s Court to hit the market there and meet Gary Haynes. We ask him for advice about our leaky boat and he…