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Down East Circle Part 4 – Chapter 3
Caribou Harbour to Ballantyne's Cove, Haddock Harbour, Isle Madame & Canso. Canso is a small, coastal fishing town on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia with a population of about 1000. It is one of the oldest fishing ports in the Maritimes, having been ...
Down East Circle Part 4 – Chapter 2
Sailing from Bouctouche, New Brunswick to Summerside & Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and Caribou Harbour, Nova Scotia.
Down East Circle Part 5 Chapter 2
1. Chester was founded in the late 1750's and is a favorite resort and vacation destination on the South Shore. It's well known for yachting and as host of the annual Chester Race Week. 2. There are two main harbours, the front harbour, where we moored o...
Down East Circle Part 5 – Chapter 1
1. We've journeyed 30 hours by train across Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and finally here to St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, where our Niagara 35 Phantasia II has been stored since last fall. 2. It's exciting to see our boat again, and to get going on ...
Down East Circle Part 5 – Chapter 6
1. Leaving Sloop Cove’s gray sand beach and sculptured Thrum Cap behind we pointed the boat seaward toward West Ironbound Island, where we had entered the La Have two weeks ago. Today we have one last stop to make in Mahone Bay at the town of Mahone Bay,...
Down East Circle Part 5 Chapter 4
1. We were not ready to depart Lunenburg until late in the morning for the sail down to the La Have Islands, the weather was a bit forbidding with rain and gusty conditions forecast for the next day. The wind, 10-15 knots, was well forward of the beam, act...
Down East Circle Part 5 – Chapter 3
1. With Jayne off in search of the laundry mat my Dad and I set out to tour the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, it's built into several of the historic warehouses directly on the water front, at the foot of "old town" Lunenburg, just a few minutes away ...
Down East Circle Part 5 – Course Overview
This years Down East Circle - Part 5, will take us on an approximately 175 nautical mile round trip, down Nova Scotia's South Shore. Not too far or too difficult but we'll make a lot of interesting stops, and we expect to have a fun & relaxing cruise. ...
Down East Circle Part 5 – Chapter 5
1. Having thoroughly enjoyed discovering Bridgewater we left against the flooding tide, the river is tidal right up to town, and its buoyed channel easily accommodated our five and a half foot draft. We went down river only a few miles, where we stopped an...
Down East Circle Part 6 – Chapter 7 NEW 2019 4K Release
n Chapter 7 we depart from Waterford New York, and enter the Erie Barge Canal, traveling 40 miles upstream through locks E2 to E10, stopping for the night at the town of Amsterdam's River Link Park. Departing Amsterdam we lock through E11 just upstream fr...
Down East Circle Part 6 – Chapter 2 NEW 2019 4K Release
In chapter 2 we depart from Port Mouton on Nova Scotia's South Shore and motor sail 40 miles to Shelburne, we arrive in time to enjoy their founders days celebrations. The next leg of our journey sees of depart from Shelburne Nova Scotia and sail out to ...
Down East Circle Part 6 – Chapter 6 NEW 2019 4K Release
In Chapter 6 we depart Manhattan on the first leg of our 135 mile journey up the Hudson River and motor 60 miles up stream to Cornwall-on-Hudson New York. The next leg sees us motoring another 60 miles up the beautiful Hudson River Valley to Catskill Cree...
Down East Circle Part 6 – Chapter 5 NEW 2019 4K Release
In chapter 5 we depart Newport Rhode Island and sail West on Block Island Sound to West Harbor on Fishers Island New York, to anchor overnight. On the following day we start out up Long Island Sound in blustery conditions, and sail 60 miles to Port Jeffer...
Down East Circle Part 6 – Chapter 4 NEW 2019 4K Release
After completing repairs to the boats electrical system, we depart Marina Bay at midday for Scitutate Harbor, a short sail of about 30 miles, entering the harbour in the midst of a thunderstorm. Departing from Scituate we sail south on Cape Cod Bay and en...