CS34 2020 East Cruise Day 03 - Picton

 After a great night's sleep, we were up at 8am to nice flat water:

The wonderdog was anxious to go for a pee:

Still Time is the first sailboat:

More "poses"
Stop that Bart!

The Berrys who we visited yesterday on the water said their son Jason's boat (wife Ayla and daughter Evelyn) were also anchored in the bay on their Irwin 38 call Ruya:

They live in Trenton, Jay works for the Coast Guard.

They had been anchored here for 3 nights.

Had a nice chat with them, and the smell of coffee and bacon/egss whafting from their boat made us hungrier to get back to Still Time for breakfast.

We made our own breakfast of the same.

It seems that everytime we go east, our first anchor is Sandy Cove.
Every year, I spend an hour or so in the dingy cleaning the sides of the hull.
Rainwater flowing down the decks comes through the holes of the aluminum toe rails and creates black streaks down the hull.  This stuff takes it right off leaving the wax untouched:

Highly recommended.

Put the dinghy motor on the rail, and empied the dinghy of water from yesterday's rain.

We both went for a swim with the water being 31.7 degrees C:

That's 89 degrees F

Hoisted the full main on anchor:

Then proceeded to hoist the anchor up.
Very muddy and weedy bottom.
Had to knock the weeds of the anchor/chain with a boathook, then spray down the anchor/chain with water from the wash down pump:

Still muddy

We were free and underway by 10:45am.

Winds were 4-6 knots from the north, full main and jib on a close reach.
Motor sailed @4.5 knots @2,000 RPM. 

Passed under the bridge near Deseronto:

... and on into Long Reach where some dude has a mega waterslide at his cottage:

Winds from behind were light and shifty, making trying to sail frustrating

Thought about the spinnaker, and glad I didn't as it would have only been up for a couple of minutes.

We got into Picton Harbour a little after 3pm.
Tried to get a slip at PEYC (Prince Edward Yacht Club), but their are not accepting visitors because of Covid.  We anchored further up the harbour on the other side.

PEYC in the background

Beautiful wooden ketch
FUGLY catamaran

Trip Odometer: 23.7 miles

Avg Speed: 4.8 knots

Max Speed: 8.0 knots
Moving Time: 04:57

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We anchored near "ACTIVE" by 15:45.
Tried to anchor closer down the arm, but no space.

We dinghied into the end of the arm and walked into town with the dog.
No stop in Picton would be complete without a shop at Giant Tiger!
Socks/Tomatoes/Bananas, some razors for me, and some nice lavender soap bars. 

I also pickup up a memoir "Beautiful Scars" by Tom Wilson at the nice book store there.
Looking forward to reading this.

Coming back to the boat:

We BBQed some pork tenderloin along with some carrots and potatoes.

The PEYC race fleet was coming in the harbour (not much wind):

Just before sunset @8:45, we dingyed across the harbour to a commercial dock to pee the dog:

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Yellow star is where we were anchored
Yellow circle is the dock 

We tied up to the dock, and took the dog's life jacket off.
He scampered down the finger to what he thought was grass, except, it was green algae!
He must have been shocked as he swam back to the finger for me to pluck him out of the water:

Where he jumped in

We were in bed by 10pm.

Ship at the cement plant across the bay