Our most northerly point
16 August 2012
Tuesday August 13th
70% chance of rain, fog developing overnight, visibility less than 1 mile. Again! When will this stop!
Once again we head out into the fog and will pass our most Northerly point today.
It is cold and wet.
We tie up to a floating dock in Grande-Vallee a mountainous environment with little population, get off the boat for a walk and a stretch and return to find the gate has been closed and we are locked out and can’t get to the boat. Desperate times call for desperate measures and I assume the roll of spider man. With out the aid of a net or special effects I crawl around the wire fence and behind the closed gate. We are in!
The minute we stir in the morning a man is there to collect $20.00 for the use of the dock, we think he works for the town. On our way by 7:30 through the fog again and on to Rivière au Renard the largest commercial fishing port in the gulf region.
It’s cold, constant fog and wet. We are so glad to see our compass heading is starting to take us south east at last.
This would not be the journey that Moira would recommend to fair-weather sailors. . Rain and dense fog for weeks. It is really cold. Sailing with radar only is frustrating and scary when you see the old bleep on the radar that indicates another boat, now how close and where the hell is it?