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Whale

Richard
Sun Jul 3 16:53:55 EDT 2011, Strait of Belle Isle, Labrador, Canada

I am not sure what kind of whale this is.

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Mon Jul 4 15:56:21 EDT 2011 | brian

Could they be minke [grumpus]?

Getting close to Nain again.

Tue Jul 5 15:44:43 EDT 2011 | yann

I would say a humpback whale
nice picture, congratulations
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Sat Jul 9 23:02:21 EDT 2011 | Richard Hudson

Thanks, Brian and Yann.

Yes,we are gettng closer to Nain, but not sure if/when we will get there :)

Whale Ahead

Richard
Sun Jul 3 10:02:00 EDT 2011, Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada

Barely visible in this picture (the black dot), is a whale. We have seen a lot of whales in the Gulf of St Lawrence. They are not so easy to take pictures of.

We spent 10 days in Rimouski, Quebec, doing maintenance (mostly replacing hydraulic pressure hoses, keel bolts and fuel hoses). Rimouski is a small, pleasant city of about 40,000 people. As its port is used by yachts, a fishing fleet and cargo ships, and it has the only marine college in Quebec, it is a good place to work on boats.

AM's time off finished so he got off the boat in Tadoussac, Quebec. Ryan joined the crew in Rimouski.

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Creek

Richard
Sat Jul 2 10:02:00 EDT 2011, Godbout, Quebec

Looking up the creek.

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Godbout Church

Richard
Fri Jul 1 10:02:00 EDT 2011, Godbout, Quebec

We anchored off the village of Godbout one night. At one time, they had a pulp and paper mill here, now it is a small, scenic spot where the ferry comes from across the river (St Lawrence).

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Dried Out

Richard
Thu Jun 30 10:02:00 EDT 2011, St Lawrence River, Quebec

Tides are very useful. We used the tides to put Issuma on the beach in the lower St Lawrence River to remove some barnacles that were clogging the seawater intake valve. The anchor is out so we can use it to pull the boat off the beach when the tide comes back in.

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Fri Jul 1 16:12:09 EDT 2011 | terry

richard .... you have swing keel ... how does it work ... ok?

Sun Jul 3 16:25:29 EDT 2011 | Richard Hudson

Terry, the swing keel works well. Because it must be locked down when sailing (so in case the boat heels it cannot swing up), and there are pads to screw in to hold it in place laterally, it is a fair amount of work to raise or lower it, and one always needs to pay attention to where it is and if it is locked or not. That said, the lifting keel is really handy to allow getting into shallow places, and makes it much easier to enter places for which one doesn't have good charts.

St Lawrence River

Richard
Wed Jun 29 18:00:00 EDT 2011, St Lawrence River, Quebec