UNDER WAY - part one

Finishing LEG ONE …..
Finally after 5 days of heavy wind we were able to get under way.  On Sunday Sept. 2 we left Pointe Sapin under sunny skies and light west winds, motor/sailing for 7 hours.  Most of our concentration was on avoiding the lobster pots that were every where.  About an hour into our trip we began to see windmills on PEI off to port.
Just afternoon MODAKI turned off Northumberland Strait and headed towards the small marina at Bouctouche.  The channel is winding and narrow with only a foot or two of water on either side.  The first part of the channel is marked with bouys and littered with lobster pots.  The second part is marked with sticks, some of which had been destroyed by an earlier storm, with small green squares  or  red triangles at the top.

The marina is quite protected with the most fabulous  club house.  It was built by K.C. Irving as an ECO Centre.  This is his home town and the club house was part of the factory were he first worked. It was beautifully  rebuilt.

On the second night of our stay our friends Dave and Mary Lou Bath, came up from Riverview (Moncton) for supper.  Dave and Mary Lou are the reason  we have come this way, why we left Ontario, and sailed out the St. Lawrence, around Gaspe, and to  New Brunswick.  We came to meet up with our sailing friends we have not seen in 4 years.   We met on a cruise with Paul and Sheryl Shard, aboard Distant Shores, in the Caribbean.