Cape Cod to Saint John, NB

Thursday, June 6 

• 4 AM – 4 hours later
• jibe 20 miles short of waypoint
• Rain
• Unlike Moitessier, I smell the barn - I don't want to keep sailing past the objective
• No seasickness, no problems with varying schedule – watch anytime, eat/sleep anytime - amazed at my new-found flexibility
• Coffee with John
• Listening to music, mindful of great choices Dawn picked out for me
• Motor-sailing at 6:00 for 6 knots
• No traps yet
• John up before 8:00 and I sleep
• Traps show, we tack out
• Rain and cold
• Fat main sail, no pull from it - put away
• Sleep, spaghetti
• John really bored
• Wet, cold, humid, steamy
• Midnight watch
• John wakes me at 10:00 for radar/lights not on chart – inshore fisherman?

Friday, June 7 

• Midnight watch – last??
• Colder, wetter
• Mid day blahs, current
• Sun comes out
• Lobster boat comes over to see if we are in trouble - since current makes us look like we are not moving
• We buy 4 lobster, and I reach out far to make safe exchange - toss to John
• John’s hands cut from catching 
• 4 lobster…took a long time to cook with small flame on propane stove
• Uplifting to score lobster
• Another night!
• Figuring out strategy for Bay of Fundy
• Friendly current whisks us by North Head, Grand Manan
• Darkness as friendly current disappears

 Saturday, June 8 

• Current swinging against us
• Approaching Point LePreau
• Outrageous current – watch Point LePreau lighthouse for hour
• Dipper Harbour – ignore tide – anchor close to big breakwater
• 2 hours out of current to wait for change
• Extreme cold – me cold feet, John shower - John so cold he takes chance, keeps propane stove on, heating heavy empty pan -sleeps in salon as his bunk is full of dampness
• Lay in sleeping bags, rubbing feet; think sleep is impossible, but... oversleep half hour
• Anchor chain cold; crisp morning
• Sun on nose and wind one more time
• Eye strain and pain, looking directly into rising sun for evil lobster buoys
• Run through one dense bank of fog for 15 minutes, suddenly into Saint John shipping channel
• Pull up to dock at Market Slip
• Customs in Saint John is difficult, but no inspection
• Doug and Jeanne arrive to say hello
• Dawn, Richard, Lorraine arrive to sail up the Saint John River to Grand Lake

• Drop off a very tired John at the Kennebecasis Yacht Club
• Pleasant sail up long Reach with Richard steering 
• Lunch at cockpit table
• Anchor at top of Long Reach
• Supper
• Pleasant re-acquaintance with Dawn
• 1^st long sleep - no problem staying in bed

 Sunday, June 9

• Pleasant sail to cottage
• Arrive at 5:00 to see many close friends and neighbors at our cottage
• Cooked us supper and cleaned up after us…good friends

Cat Tales at her new home in Flower's Cove, Grand Lake, New Brunswick.

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