Today we were going to lift anchor and head to The Navy’s,
another group of islands, but decided to stay where we have good holding with
our anchor, its beautiful here and we will explore The Navy’s when a couple of our
friends arrive on Sunday/Monday with their sailboats. So we’re heading in to
Gananoque to do laundry and find a place with wifi to catch up on some web surfing.
Our timing was good, Katie and Jessie were just starting to pull up their
anchor when we dropped by to say good-bye.
In town, we did our laundry at the marina and found a café with
free wifi; plugged in a power bar for both laptops, cellphones, iPad and camera’s…might
as well charge everything while we can. It was later than expected so for
dinner (16:30) we ordered their gluten free fish taco’s that people were raving
about…maybe they are used to eating cardboard, we didn't think they tasted near
as good as they looked. We arrived back to the boat around 17:30. Batteries
were down to 75%, so we fired up the genie for an hour.
We have really started to conserve our water, using lake
water to wash dishes, flush toilets and swimming to bath. We are dreading
docking at the marina; why? About a month ago, Julie and I arrived at Port
Credit Harbour Marina to haul BoomDeYada out f the water for the night; it’s
pretty tight in there and when we arrived there were two boats already on the
wall, no room for us but it was too late as we were already in the small tight
basin. As we tried to make our turn-around, the wind picked up and pushed us
into some boats…we had two bows (front of boats) jabbing into to our life lines
(two horizontal cables that surround your boat above the deck to save you from
falling overboard); Julie grabbing one bow and I was on the other, we were
pushing in hopes BoomDeYada would push out far enough to escape. While others
watched, the wind died, Julie made an excellent move at the helm and we were
able to escape…no damage done but to our pride. We continue to build our
confidence in manoeuvring this large vessel, soon we will have wind, current
and tides to deal with.
We miss the kids and dismiss thoughts like, ‘why don’t we
have so and so over for drinks?’…no friends close by to that so far. Sailing is
a very social activity and we will that more as we head south and meet others
with common goals. Here in the 1000 Islands, everyone is on vacation with
family and don’t stay in one spot long enough; even Katie and Jessie were only
here for one night and then continued on their journey the opposite direction.
Julie and I played Scrabble, she had the opportunity to
boast as she came back from behind…that damn ‘Q’! (I guess the captain means the one I traded in) ;)
Cheers
Dwayne & Julie
sv BoomDeYada
MMSI# 316026055
Skype: dwayne.sadler or Julia.sadler
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