CS34 Trip East Day 03

Trent Port to Prinyer's Cove.

Trent Port is a great place to stop and wait out the storm.

The squall watch on our phones and VHF did not materialize, but there were confirmed tornadoes just 20 miles north of us.  We saw all the nastiness pass us to the north.

Washroom and showers are awesome!

They have a weed eating machine at the dock just down from us:

Still Time at her slip:

Here is the weed eating machine going out the next morning:

The girls did a provisioning run to the grocery store in town.

The boys checked the oil and fuel levels.
Filled the water tanks.

We had half a tank of diesel, so we decided to head to the fuel dock.

$126 for a fill and got a pump out just in case.

The boat behind us here was a Bavaria 38 Cruiser from ABYC.
Same boat that was beside us at our slip.

We got a tour of the boat; very nicely layed out!
Rita loved it.

We left the fuel dock a little after 10am:

See ya later Trent Port!

We motor sailed down the Bay of Quinte with a reefed main, as there was only 5or6 knots of wind directly behind us.  Motoring faster that the speed of the wind made the headsail useless.

We went under the bridge at Belleville:

Past the bridge, through the narrows, around Forester's Island, and down long reach.

What I discovered is that we had lost the nut on that keeps the boom vang on.
With a reef main, the reefing lines had pulled the bolt holding the blocks.

Photo after the fix

The boom vang was disconnected at the mast, and he had to shake the reef out.
The double block in the above photo had pulled the bolt right out. 
We could not reef the main sail.

Winds were building to like 8-12knots with gusts over 20.
Down Long Reach, the wind also moved forward, so we furled in the headsail and motor sailed down the reach dumping the main in the puffs. 

Approaching Aldophus Reach
and the Glenora Ferry

Once we got down near the turn to Aldophus reach, we poled out the jib to windward, and TURNED the motor off.

We had 15 miles of fast quiet comfortable downwind sailing to Prinyer's Cove:

We took the last mooring ball at Prinyer's Cove:

First order of business was to unpack and inflate the dingy.

Took us about 15 minutes to get it in the water so Shadow could pee:

Shadow coming back to the boat after some relief:

We BBQed some chicken for dinner.

We were in bed before 10pm after a long but good day!

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Missing first part of trip on this track

Trip Odometer: 39.1 miles
Trip Start: 10:08am
Trip End: 07:13pm
Trip Duration: 09:05
Average Speed: 4.8 knots