Sailing Vessel Still Time: CS34 2021 Cruise East Day 06 Waupoos to Brakey Bay

Sunday, August 8, 2021

CS34 2021 Cruise East Day 06 Waupoos to Brakey Bay

Up before 8am, went ashore to pee the dog

Walter had called a friend who owns a Blue Berry farm in Waupoos.

We dinghied over to meet Jim and his wife at their dock.
Jim was an apple farmer who used to own most the land along the Waupoos shore.
He kept a humble cottage on the 3 acres of land and grows blueberries.
He also has an 38ft express cruiser in Waupoos marina.

The entire crop is encased in netting to keep the birds out:

Didn't take long to pick a quart of the most delicious berries I have had in a long time:

Back to the boats and we hoisted anchors around 10:30am.

Destination Kingston!

Winds were from the east about 10 knots, so a nice sail around the rugged coast of Prince Edward County:

There was a 600ft lake anchored in the middle of the inner channel on the other side of Amherst Island awaiting to go into the LaFarge cement plant:

Walter sent me this shot of Still Time passing the ship:

We called Confedration Basin marina in Kingston, but they could not accommodate a 40ft boat.

We tried to sail as much as we could but the wind was right on the nose and light.
We kept the mainsail up for the extra push motor sailing.

I was down to 1/4 tank of fuel (and so was Walter), so we made a pit stop at Kingston Yacht Club for fuel and pump out. I wanted to wait until Gananoque, but we were there.

Yellow is where we dropped the main.

You can see where we went in for fuel, and where Still Time was circling around while The Beckoning fueled up. There is only room for one boat at the fuel dock.
Confederation Basin is in the upper right.

We thought about anchoring by CFB Kingston:

...and dinghying into Kingston, but the winds were coming in from the SW overnight, so it would be very exposed.

We went onto another recommended anchorage 10 miles away called Brakey Bay on Wolfe Island.

Walter and Colleen wanted to pull into some other anchorages on the way, but all the lands on those bays are private and we could not go ashore to pee the dog.

Brakey Bay was lovely!