| Eight boats holding 22 people gathered at Little Current, Ontario
on July 25, 1999
Shearwaters:
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| Eight boats holding 22 people gathered at Little Current, Ontario
on July 25, 1999
Shearwaters:
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Nick Scheuer found us a dandy launch ramp, with all the requirements:
good, cheap, secure parking for two weeks, docking space in such shallow
water that they didn't charge us, clean bathrooms, and a $3 fee to
cover both launching and retrieving.
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Rosemary with entire crew:
Ellen Laura Robby Gabby Moby Nick himself David
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With the North Channel running east and west and the winds mostly out of
the west or southwest, you can tell that we did lots of downwind sailing
and lots of tacking. The first week we went east. The protected
anchorages were plentiful and the scenery just got better and better.
Some islands were mostly woods. Others were mostly rocks. The
water in all the Great Lakes this year is low so there were more rocks
than usual. The biggest advantage for us shallow-water types is that
when the chart said that a rock was awash, it was quite visible.
| The second day out we sailed down a 9-mile long fjord
of white granite with courageous pine trees growing impossibly out of the
occasional crack.
Here the McGuires prepare to sail off down the fjord (Baie Fine) after a stop at the fjord's entrance.
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