Sailing Vessel Still Time: CS34 2020 Cruise East Day 07

We were up at 8am and had a nice breakfast on the boat (bacon/egg/pepper wraps).

John and Wendy walked over with their dog Darby and we left the dock a little after 10am.

Winds were from the SW 6-8 knots, so we headed out towards Wolf Island on a beam reach with full main and jib. Nice comfortable sail.

Just past Fort Henry, we boar away towards to the north shore.
Winds were diminishing, and we decided to check out the nice houses here, so we furled in the jib and motor sailed the rest of the way.

John and Wendy were looking at a house on the water on Treasure Island before they bought the condo, so we went to check it out from the water. Too shallow to get into the dock.

Treasure Island
Yellow marks the place they were looking at

Winds picked up to 10-12 knots on the nose on the way back, we just motor sailed with the main.

You can see how we tacked back west keeping the main just full enough to give us a push.

We pulled into Confederation Basin, dropped the main in the basin and moored on the wall by their condo.

You can see Wendy on the balcony

What a nice time we had, John and Wendy were heading to their cottage north of Kingston, and we headed back on the water to Gannanoque hoisting the main in the basin.

Winds were 10-12 knots from directly behind us.
Rigged up and hoisted the spinnaker:

Ahhhhhh
NO MOTOR

With the wind directly behind us, we could not carry the spinnaker dead down wind.
Had to come up a little bit to keep it from collapsing behind the main, and gybe as we got closer to the Bateau Channel. More a douse and re-hoist on the other side. Once we got into the Bateau Channel, we just doused and motor sailed.

A friggan Tartan 3500 from Trident Yacht Club was going dead down wind with an asym up, flying it on the wrong side like a poled out genoa: he was able to sail the whole way.

Worked for him as he blew by us!

Our main is on the same side as his, but the spinnaker is to windward.
Notice how he had gybed the spinnaker to the other side from the previous photo.
We had to head up to fly our chute conventionally.

Normally, we would have stopped at Trident Yacht Club, but they are NOT accepting visitors this year because of Covid. We motor sailed with main to the start of the 1000 Islands.

We got 5 blasts from a cable ferry that was crossing in front of us:

We altered course to pass well behind him.
You don't want to catch your keel on the cable!

We first went to the north side of Beaurivage Island to anchor.
However, there were several boats there and we were worried about swinging into them in the night.
Too shallow further in the bay there.

Yellow is where we avoided the cable ferry

We went around the south side of the Island and anchored in 10ft of water with 5 other boats.
Never seen this anchorage so empty! Usually very crowded this late in the day.

Anchoring here you have to avoid the submarine cables that supply electricity to the islands:

We were anchored by 5pm.

One of the boats was Carson Woods son Braden's Bavaria 38 called Paladen (he wasn't at the boat).

Trip Odometer: 29.42 miles
Avg Speed: 4.7 knots
Max Speed: 8.6 knots
Time on Water: 06:13

Took the dog to Beaurivage Island for a washroom break:

View from dock on the island
Still Time is the rightmost boat

We went for a swim off the back of the boat.
Rita was on the boarding ladder soaping up, when she felt fish nipping on her toes.
She screamed like a little girl!

Bunch of perch underneath the boat.

Some people pay good money for a poisson pedicure.

We BBQed some steak and enjoyed another nice dinner, then around 7pm, ventured out in the dingy for a toot around Lindsay Island: