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Back on the Atlantic Coast
After about 1,400 nautical miles of inshore cruising we are back on
the Atlantic coast heading south down the shore of Nova Scotia. We've been a lot of interesting places over the last 6 weeks or so including the Hudson River, Erie Canal, Lake Ontario, Thousand Islands, Montreal, Quebec, Saguenay Fjord, Gaspe Peninsula, Prince Edward Island, Canso Strait, Bras D'or Lake and Halifax Harbor. It's been quite an adventure and still have a ways to go before we get back to NYC and complete the so called "Downeast Loop". https://www.dropbox.com/s/ej4gdrqsw9epwf6/track%20plot%20to%20halifax.jpg?dl=0 |
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On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 22:39:35 -0300, Wayne.B
wrote: After about 1,400 nautical miles of inshore cruising we are back on the Atlantic coast heading south down the shore of Nova Scotia. We've been a lot of interesting places over the last 6 weeks or so including the Hudson River, Erie Canal, Lake Ontario, Thousand Islands, Montreal, Quebec, Saguenay Fjord, Gaspe Peninsula, Prince Edward Island, Canso Strait, Bras D'or Lake and Halifax Harbor. It's been quite an adventure and still have a ways to go before we get back to NYC and complete the so called "Downeast Loop". https://www.dropbox.com/s/ej4gdrqsw9epwf6/track%20plot%20to%20halifax.jpg?dl=0 I was born and brought up in N. New England and I think that for a truly full flavored trip you should delay your departure from Nuffie-land until the end of December, first of January :-) -- Cheers, Bruce |
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Sounds like a great tour. I left ME about Labor Day one year and had to
sail in between the storms the locals call noreasters. I suggest you don't linger but get below Cape Cod in a reasonably short time. Those storms were nasty. -paul On 8/13/2016 7:39 PM, Wayne.B wrote: After about 1,400 nautical miles of inshore cruising we are back on the Atlantic coast heading south down the shore of Nova Scotia. We've been a lot of interesting places over the last 6 weeks or so including the Hudson River, Erie Canal, Lake Ontario, Thousand Islands, Montreal, Quebec, Saguenay Fjord, Gaspe Peninsula, Prince Edward Island, Canso Strait, Bras D'or Lake and Halifax Harbor. It's been quite an adventure and still have a ways to go before we get back to NYC and complete the so called "Downeast Loop". https://www.dropbox.com/s/ej4gdrqsw9epwf6/track%20plot%20to%20halifax.jpg?dl=0 |
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On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 08:46:32 -0600, Paul Cassel
wrote: Sounds like a great tour. I left ME about Labor Day one year and had to sail in between the storms the locals call noreasters. I suggest you don't linger but get below Cape Cod in a reasonably short time. Those storms were nasty. === Yes. We once stayed in Bar Harbor, Maine until after Labor Day weekend. It was a chilly ride back down the coast but no big nor'easters fortunately. We did have one in late September however as we were going south from NY to Cape May, NJ. We could see the waves breaking on the beaches from 3 miles offshore and spent the day surfing down 10 to 12 footers. It was blowing so hard in NY harbor that morning that the coast guard shadowed us fo a while, probably thinking we were crazy and headed for disaster. |
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On 8/14/2016 10:42 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
=== Yes. We once stayed in Bar Harbor, Maine until after Labor Day weekend. It was a chilly ride back down the coast but no big nor'easters fortunately. We did have one in late September however as we were going south from NY to Cape May, NJ. We could see the waves breaking on the beaches from 3 miles offshore and spent the day surfing down 10 to 12 footers. It was blowing so hard in NY harbor that morning that the coast guard shadowed us fo a while, probably thinking we were crazy and headed for disaster. Ah, either you were lucky or I unlucky. In the year I tried it, the storms followed each other every few days. It was, for me singlehanding a new for me boat, a matter of sailing in the windows between storms. |
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