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