Sailing Vessel Still Time: CS34 2021 Cruise East Day 14 Trenton to Cobourg

Sunday, August 15, 2021

CS34 2021 Cruise East Day 14 Trenton to Cobourg

Up a little before 8am.

Time to enjoy an awesome shower in their awesome facilities.
Because of Covid restrictions, only 4 of the 10 bathroom/shower stalls were open, and there was a lineup of 10 or 12 people to get into the building for a shower.

Oh well, Walter and Colleen wanted to get going, so we made haste and left the dock without a shower or breakfast. We could do these underway.

Nice wide docks

Good thing we made haste because Walter was going to go through the small craft channel.

They draft 5.6ft, and the channel is marked for a depth of 6ft, but the water level is almost 2ft lower!

We had to take the long way to get to the Murray:

Still Time, The Beckoning, and Play Dough went through the Murray on the same swings of her bridges.

On the other side of the Murray Canal going into Brighton Bay, there was a Nash 26 that had strayed off the channel and had run aground:

You have to stay within the channel markers!
The weeds were terrible and we had to backup several times.

Play Dough

Coming through Brighton Bay, we heard some radio chatter.
None other than our friends Harvey/Sherry-Lynn and Yvan/Kim who were motoring from Cobourg to Trent Port. Too bad we couldn't have hooked up again with them.

When they past us around the small island off Presquille provincial park, they sent me a picture of us raising the spinnaker:

Not fully up yet

Doug also sent me a photo of it pulling nicely:

The Beckoning and Play Dough motor sailed ahead of us, we were content to sail sans motor with an 8 knot breeze on the beam with 5.5 knots of boat speed.