We spent the day in Erieau getting ready to go on a night sail. We went out for lunch and visited the marine store/lcbo and then we each took a nap. We left Erieau around 7pm to start our final 100+ nm sail back to Port Dover. Our slip in Erieau Eating lunch at Bayside Brewing Company Leaving Erieau just as the sun was setting We had an amazing night sail. We stayed up for the first part of the...

We left Pelee Island around 8am to head to Erieau. It was a bit of a hazy morning but it cleared pretty quickly Leaving Scudders Marina Passing the lighthouse we had visited the day before The Pelee Passage light off of Point Island marking the edge of the reef Unfortunately we had no wind today so we motored for most of it. I had gone down below deck to make us some lunch when I suddenly felt...

With the weather finally in our favour we left Boblo Island and headed off towards Pelee Island. We left Boblo Island around 7am. We had quite an interesting start to the trip. The water level had gone down and the keel was scraping through the mud trying to get out of our slip. Thankfully Britt's dad was there and helped us to push off. Trying to leave Boblo was interesting because of how foggy...

We woke up around 9am because Tara's parents were meeting us in Sarnia to spend the day with us. They showed up around noon and we went out for lunch with them. We went to a local fish and chip stand and then they drove us to the marine store to pick up some more racor filters and festoon bulbs. After lunch Tara's mum headed off and her dad stayed with us. He was making the trip down the river...

Leaving South Hampton we headed towards Sarnia. This was going to be one of our longer trips. We spent the day relaxing on the boat and doing some chores and finally got ready to set off around 7pm. We were going to do another night sail but also wanted to make sure we left the anchorage with some light. What we hadn't realized was that while we knew we were anchored on a rock bottom we had...

We are leaving Stokes Bay and headed to Chantry Island. We started our morning by cleaning the boat and getting the washdown system ready. We had anchored in mud and clay and the anchor and chain needed a good wash. We left around 11am and got to sail the whole way! As we were sailing Tara looked over the edge and realized that even in 30ft of water we could see straight to the bottom. The water...

Leaving Heywood Island we headed towards Stokes Bay. The trip to Stokes Bay went smoothly right up until the end. When we got closer to land the weather and waves started to pick up and the lake was quite rough. We had left Heywood Island around 1am and made it to Stokes Bay and 4:30pm. The first evening was spent eating and sleeping. The next morning Britt slept in too late (a solid 12 hours)...

Leaving Baie Fine we headed towards Heywood Island. We had to make a decision as to whether we kept going toward Little Current and farther into the north channel but we couldn’t find a weather window that gave us enough time to do the loop around Manitoulin Island and still get back in time for winter haul out. Heywood was the beginning of our adventure back south. And it was a beautiful...

We left Bad River around 7 am and almost immediately after leaving the anchorage we had our sails up and the engine off. Our route from Bad River to Baie Fine Leaving our Bad River anchorage We sailed the entire way to Killarney and we went around a mountain range until we could see the entrance to Baie Fine. Entrance to Baie Fine With a narrow opening and a very narrow passage through the...

Leaving Shawanaga we were accompanied by two loons and perfect weather. We are headed towards Bad River. Our route from Shawanaga to Bad River Up with the sunrise We left around 7:00am and while we started in narrow channels we made it to bigger water where we could sail. The winds eventually died and we turned on the motor with our sails and continued on at just over 6 knots. Getting ready to...