Haida Legend Adventures

After 10 years, we’re back on the water!

11 February 2025 | Lee Stocking Island
06 February 2025 | Rudder Cay
05 February 2025 | Cambridge Cay
01 February 2025 | Staniel Cay
01 February 2025 | Cambridge Cay
30 January 2025 | Waderwick Wells Anchorage
27 January 2025 | Cambridge Cay
25 January 2025 | Waderwick Wells
22 January 2025 | Warderick Wells
20 January 2025 | Bonds Cay
16 January 2025 | Great Stirrup Cay
14 January 2025 | Lucaya last day.
12 January 2025 | Lucaya
07 January 2025 | Lucaya
30 December 2024 | same
24 December 2024 | Slip C25 Lucaya
20 December 2024
13 December 2024 | windy
08 December 2024 | Lukaya
05 December 2024 | n/c

Ep. 45 Bad Moon Rising

16 November 2024 | Jupiter
Bill Bernaerts | windy
As the sun was setting the weirdest full moon rose over the trees last night but getting a good quality photo was not possible using the cell phone camera. But the full moon does help explain the extra high/low tides and currents we have been experiencing for the past couple of days.

https://youtu.be/w6iRNVwslM4?si=SIYk6SkABO8xyjmB

And while to old belief that human behaviour is influenced by the full moon, modern science has since disproved this. However it may not be the case with boaters. Today we were heading to a bridge and there was a sizeable power boat approaching from the other side. I could see he was moving pretty good by the bow wave he was pushing but I thought he would slow down to go under the bridge as it is a "no wake" zone. Well apparently he took that literally as he must have been asleep as he ran under the bridge at likely 20+ knots trailing a 3' wake and almost hitting us! Lunacy or another case of PBBHS (power boater butt head syndrome)? You be the judge.

https://youtu.be/AuWjXrFh1qQ?si=xxifTZRQIGMfb8L2

It was very busy on the ICW all day being a weekend with boats flying around everywhere. As I said yesterday the waterways here are very shallow so staying in the channel is a must for our boat. We saw a number of boats that were either sunk or washed ashore along the way here which illustrates that point.

In Fort Pierce we passed a wrecked trimaran named the Ultimate Emotion 2, which apparently was a very famous record setting ocean going racer that set a new speed record for crossing the souther Atlantic in 2020. Unfortunately it had a catastrophic failure on a race to a Bermuda in 2022 with hull cracks and mast delamination. Fortunately no one was hurt. Mysteriously it been sitting at this location for over a year now and details are hard to find.

https://www.eastbayri.com/stories/world-class-trimaran-awaiting-repair-in-bristol,105516#:~:text=The%20boat%20is%20the%20Ultim%20Emotion%202%2C,a%20speed%20of%20more%20than%2030%20knots.

Had a few lift bridges to run today, having to wait a few minutes for 1 but got into an anchorage in Jupiter tonight, right beside the ICW. it was pretty bouncy with all the boats blasting around but it settled down once it got closer to dusk. Now the wind, that's another story....

A nice diagram showing the effects of sun and moon on tides so right now we're full moon situation.
Comments
Vessel Name: Amaruq
Vessel Make/Model: Tartan 3500
Hailing Port: Brighton On
Crew: Bill, Sam and Finn (Dinghy Dog) sadly Finn is no longer with us.(sniff!)
About:
Bill and Sam retired in 2014 and took off for an 8 week, 1400 mile cruise of the Trent Canal, Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and home again to home port. In 2018 they traded their boat for a 5th wheel and cruised the US southwest for 2 winters. [...]
Extra: Follow their adventures as they knock 1 more thing off their bucket list.