Making Plans

​By the time of my awakening yesterday the mooring interloper had departed. With a coffee in me, Makina was started up and we moved back to good old Number 3 Mooring Ball.

There was one interesting new addition to the harbour and that was an American flagged clippership-ish vessel. She was flying an older version of the stars and stripes which was probably from her time period. Will try to get more details on her later.

It was a rainy morning when waking up. It was coming down pretty hard until about noon. Took that break in the weather to row into Zwicker's Wharf to get some supplies at Foodland.

Pierre had dropped a text via whatsapp, saying that he may be freed up for some more sailing and wondered if there were any plans. There was one vague one...

My Daughter had been in touch with an old friend of mine, recently, who is now living along the Bay of Fundy in Annapolis Royal. We talked about the idea of taking Makina to the Fundy and perhaps visiting him. It would make for a good destination, as well as a good scouting of what waters to expect if Makina is taken south through the Inland Waterway along the east coast of the United States this autumn.

Prior to 1710 ​Annapolis Royal was known as Port Royal.

Annapolis Royal is recognised as having one of the longest histories in North America, preceding the settlements at Plymouth, Jamestown and Quebec. For nearly 150 years, it served as the capital of Acadia and subsequently Nova Scotia until the establishment of Halifax in 1749.

• Wikipedia.org

Did some playing around with my charting app and it looked like it would be a serious passage. From Lunenburg to Yarmouth (the most southern city in Nova Scotia) was about 142NM.

Then from Yarmouth to Annapolis Royal would be another 176NM. The total passage covering 318NM.

It would take almost a week to head directly there, but a lot longer if one wanted to explore the coast along the way. There would be great stops like the town of Shelburne, along the coast.

It will depend how much time Pierre could dedicate to the passage. There is also @optnotten, my Daughter and Son-In-Common-Law who may want to join the passage along the way.

That will likely be tomorrow's project; to touch base with the potential crew and to look for a cheap place for Pierre to leave his car.

Until then...