CS34 Camelot Island

We were up a just after 8am.
Want to know what woke us?
The Quebec Navy had started their generators!
Not one, but five or six of them!

There is a Parks Canada rule that says you can't run generators (or motors to charge) between 10pm and 8am.

Off to Macdonald Island to water the dog.

Anchored off MacDonald Island was a large like 60ft catamaran from Montreal: 

Weirdest rig; two mast joined at the top with furling main and boom free standing.

No sails.

By 9:30, we hoisted anchor, passing our neighbours from Trident on Chardonnay:

Nice Boat

...and got the heck out of there!

We meandered around Hay Island, Leek Island, making our way to Camelot Island.
Not much wind in the morning, so it was a motor.

On the south side, we saw a really kewl bay by Netley Island with like 4 mooring balls (all taken).

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We continued around the island and on the north side, we saw two familiar boats from Trident.

AlexBrae is a CS40 owned by Alex and Brent.
Alex's Dad Carson used to be part owner of our race boat ZAMBONI.

Brent is a single handed racer who has won the Lake Ontario 300.

Carson sold AlexBrae to them (Alex's brother's name is Braeden).

Allura is a Niagara 42 owned by Kim and Karen.
They used to have Allura in Whitby, and we have met up with them many times in the 1000 Islands.

Kim came over in his Boston Whaler and helped us anchor.

He instructed us to go away from shore until you see 60ft of water.
Drop 100ft of chain and back up to shore to set the anchor; good holding there.
Kim took a long line from Still Time and tied it to a rock on shore.

Our rudder did touch bottom, so I let 10ft of line off the stern, and brought in some anchor rode to bring us into deeper water.

We ended up about 20ft from shore in 12ft of water at the keel.

AlexBrae

Allura

What a civilized way to anchor; no swinging at all.

Never done this before.

You have to tie to a rock, as Parks Canada will not let you tie off to a tree.

What a magical spot!

We had 4:00 cocktails on floaties between the boats.

The next boat over was Bob and Elody from ABYC with a Beneteau 40.

We all watched the sunset from the bows our our boats:

Then off to the Parks Canada dock to pee Shadow:

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Trip Odometer: 6.1 miles
Trip Start: 09:30
Trip End: 11:12
Trip Duration: 01:41
Average Speed: 3.6 knots

CS34 Lindsay Island Long Weekend Anchor with the Quebec Navy

After a nice sleep, breakfast, and a shower, we pushed off the dock just after 9am:

Went over the pumpout dock, but had to circle around until other boats were done:

I have to say the the pumpout unit at Trident REALLY SUCKS.
The one at Whitby REALLY doesn't!

Winds were 7-8 knots from the SSW (deep broad reach), so we just unfurled the headsail and turned the motor off:

The boat ghosted along quietly at around 3 knots of boat speed under auto pilot.

Sailed past the Howe Island cable ferry: 

We sailed right through the Beaurivage Island anchorage, but there were 14 boats already there.

We continued down the Wanderer's channel, furling the headsail before we made the turn between Lindsay and MacDonald Islands.

We got anchored in about 9ft of water.

Trip Odometer: 5.5 miles
Trip Start: 09:17
Trip End: 11:27
Trip Duration: 02:09
Average Speed: 2.5 knots

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We got the dingy all setup, and went for a tour of some islands to the south of us.

We went into Half Moon bay:

Trip Odometer: 3.3 miles
Start Time: 01:04
End Time: 01:57
Trip Duration: 52:26
Average Speed: 3.7 knots

Some truely iconic scenery:

Coming back to our anchorage, we saw Jim and his wife Ildiko anchoring their CS34 from Trident just over from us:

Same year, same colours!

As the afternoon went on the bay was filling up with sailboats:

...and many many many powerboats.

We had a raft of 7 boats in front of us, a raft of 5 boats to the right, and a raft of 4 to the left.

Didn't really think it would bother us, but then the music started.
Sound really carries over the water, they had powerful stereos with subwoofers.
Very disrespectful to all the others in the bay, not to mention the cottage owners.

This went on until 11:30 at night.

Irate boaters were blasting their air horns to get them to turn it down:

To make matter worst, they were pulling kids on tubes with JetSkis through the crowded anchorage.  No spotters, were were afraid to go swimming/paddleboarding.

We were sure they should not have been driving motorized vehicles judging from the amount of drinking and pot smoking that was going on the dance raft party.

All of these boats had their registrations numbers start with QC hence the term "Quebec Navy".

All was not bad as we did meet some nice people.

Couple tied to a mooring ball with their paddle board.

We had about a 1/4 mile dingy ride to MacDonald Island to take Shadow for a pee:

 We were treated to an awesome sunset (while the dance party ensued around us):

We went sound to sleep after the music turned off.

CS34 Kingston Sail Loft

After getting Don & Judy home, we did domestic stuff like laundry, cut the lawn, and reprovisioning to get back to the boat before the long weekend.

I dropped Rita off at the boat at around noon and drove into Kingston with the damaged spinnaker.

Kingston Sail Loft used to be downtown Kingston, now located in the west side of Kingston closer to the 401.  About a 25min drive from Trident.

Owner John is a super nice guy.  Being Friday before the long weekend, he said he should have it repaired by Tuesday; GREAT STUFF

I had brought a role of extra nylon cloth left over when the spinnaker was built by Durk Steigenga in 2017.

We ended up staying on the boat at Trident because the winds were blowing 25+ knots from the west, pushing Still Time against the dock.