We had been watching the predicted path of Hurricane Erin. For a while, it was supposed to hit Newfoundland but as it got closer, the models converged and showed it going East. But to be safe, we decided to go to the NE end of Placentia Bay, Arnold’s Cove. We stayed here for a while and did some boat work as we were getting some strong southerlies after the hurricane passed. There were several nice hikes and the rock formation below is called “Screaming Woman”.
We had created a plan to meet up with Graeme and take the boat to Nova Scotia to overwinter and get the some painting done. We headed south, and anchored in Baine Harbor for a few days as it was raining and we had southerlies.
We then went to St Lawrence where we met up with Graeme. The harbormaster, Scott, was very nice. He drove Al to the gas station to get diesel and Graeme and Al fished for mackeral off the pier for dinner that night.
Then it was off to St Pierre where we finished stocking up, including getting the maximum bottle of wines per person. We had an ok weather window to East River Shipyard, just past Halifax, approximately 350-400 miles. It was a bit of a slog, we did 24 hours the first day and only did 160 miles where we checked into customs at Louisbourg. We did about 14 hours the next day and 13 hours the day after that and anchored in downtown Halifax. Here we had a beautiful sail in and a fantastic view of the big city. It was pretty foggy the next morning and Graeme and Al had to worry about Naval bombing practice which was announced over the VHF. But the fog started clearing around 11:00 and we had a great sail to East River. We have a few days to prepare the boat for overwintering before it gets hauled out and we fly home!
Farewell from Newfoundland. ( our summer home on Pool’s Island where we would see you coming in and out of Valleyfield ) If you continue southward perhaps our paths might cross in the lower 48.