Anse du Petit Mitis is where we anchored for the night. We had seals all around us. They tried to sneak up on us, the minute we looked they ducked underwater. One was tagged 88,we called her our 99 (From Get Smart). Who's spying on us?
The anchorage was protected well from the winds but not the swell. When our west wind quit, a nasty northern swell started when we went to bed, finally at 7am Captain Roy had enough rocking. So we were off sailing, light winds, still with a swell. The swell was with us most of the day. For those of you, Skip, who complain about seeing nothing but the transom of a Nonsuch. Go out on a lumpy, light air day. Fat piggy boats don't like that. We arrived at Club de yacht de Mantane around 3pm. Coming into Mantane was interesting, we are sailing right up to a bridge then turning into the yacht club. You can't see the entrance until you are almost at the bridge. I kept asking Captain Roy are you sure we enter this way. Of course, Captain Roy says. As usual the Captain is always right. He's right only when it comes to sailing since he's the mastermind. A boat tried to come in at low tide last night around 7:30pm and was still sitting on the bottom at 10:30pm. We don't know what time he got off but he was not a happy sailor.
The people at the yacht club are extremely friendly. This nice gentlemen took us to the local fish market, Poissonnerie to buy fresh fish. We also got fresh lobster that just came in, I cooked it up when we got back to the Yumsuch. It was better than what we had in Tadousacc by a long shot. Yummy, Yummy,Yummy!
In the last 3 days we have traveled 100 miles, not bad but we still have a long way to go.
If you're talking about a "rolly" anchorage where the boat is head to wind and waves are on the beam, have you tried this?: Rig a bridle to warp your boat around head to waves; run a line from your main winch (mid-ship on my boat) or an aft cleat to a point on the anchor line at least two boat lengths ahead of the bow. Use a good strong crew or a dinghy to swing the boat head to (parallel) the waves. This should reduce/eliminate roll (ha, ha). The position (length) of the line on the anchor line and the knot used takes some monkeying around. If you have enough chain rode and a line with a galvanized hook it makes the whole operation a lot easier. This worked several times for us in the Caribbean in notoriously rolly anchorages.
ReplyDeleteEnjoying your travels, thanks for the blog.
Bob & Brenda Siesta dos Sodus Bay NY
http://windtraveler.blogspot.com/2011/03/slow-your-roll.html
ReplyDeleteThis is a better description of a "swell anchor"
B&B