Cabot Strait -the crossing
05 July 2019
by Paula Rolfe
Codroy is a beautiful safe harbour with electricity. It is a great place to wait. So We waited and waited and all we could see was weather warning after weather warning for Cabot Strait.
This crossing was mentally challenging for me even though I had crossed a number of times before. It is around 90 nm from Codroy to Ingonish south with nowhere to go if things get worse. So Thursday morning we woke to check at 5am again to see if there was still a warning. Luckily the warning was lifted!!! So we decided to go for it. We were concerned about the swell from the northwest wind but we knew if we did not leave then we would be stuck in Codroy even longer (Byron refers to Codroy as Velcro lol).
We headed off and the pea soup fog engulfed us until a few miles from Ingonish. It was a tad cold too.
We saw many ships ahead and behind us on radar and AIS and heard fog horns but we could not see anything. Numerous times it seemed like the fog was lifting.... but maybe we were imagining it.
Thank god the fog lifted when it did because now it was obvious that the waterways were filled with lobster pots that we now had to maneuver around.
It did begin to warm up and we were so thankful for that. We safely tucked into South Ingonish harbour with many fishing and sailing boats. Overall the crossing was fantastic.
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