Paradise Leased | Ep. 239

[Music] [Music] for [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] we got a little Lake sailing here so on tap today is a short tacking drill up the winding Waterway leading to sheet Harbor as I get further Inland the wind becomes less and less steady often with frequent and dramatic wind shifts which is reminiscent of Lake sailing but once there it's quite a nice Anchorage good holding and 10 to 20 ft of water and well sheltered there's just one other sail boat there and that's a local boat now in early October I'm no longer seeing any other transient cruising Yachts up this way so here's a little dingy dock which belongs to the uh this is a hardware store and lumber yard up here and they even have a water hose and uh however you got to go up uh it's a blue building up here to turn it on you have to turn it on up at the spet and uh they only ask that you turn it off after after you're done so fair enough just up the road from the hardware store is a food Land sipper Market there's also a gas station close by oh everybody long time no see it is Thursday the 5th of October 2023 and we're still way up here in Novas yeah uh wait anchor from sheet Harbor this morning and uh right now have our snout pointed just about toward Tangier Island um so I've officially begun my uh my trk back to the Southwest um General plan is to get to Cape Cod Massachusetts and then uh take off from there to Bermuda and then Bermuda s out um so earlier when I looked at the weather maps I thought uh uh actually tomorrow looked like a perfect window to do an overnight back to shellburn and then uh provision in shelburn and I jump off to Cape cot at the earliest available window um because I was seeing these nice East to Southeast winds developing um so that that seemed uh that seemed like quite a good wind however now a few days later when I've uh studied the uh Maps a little more closely and marched the time out a bit I see that those good winds are going to get a little too good uh Saturday night into Sunday because the East to Southeast winds are the winds ahead of tropical storm Phillip uh which is approaching from the south um so it looks like uh Saturday night into Sunday we're looking at Southeast Gales uh possibly storm Force um so here we go so now I got to find a place that's snug to Anchor uh to weather philp and so my thought on that is to go up into ship Harbor actually sheet Harbor is pretty well sheltered too but uh go into ship Harbor and uh there's Clark's Cove uh so you're kind of up a river there and uh and it looks like that Cove will provide very good Shelter From the southeast um so that's the plan uh not sure I'm going to make it all the way there today but hopefully I can get to the Anchorage which is just uh there's a few Islands just before you gets the entrance uh to the long sort of f river that goes up in the ship Harbor so um hopefully uh be able to make that uh before Sundown uh we're going to windw but uh it's only about 12 miles from where we're at um so that's the plan and uh yeah then check out uh that Anchorage tomorrow uh hopefully that'll uh hopefully that's Anchorage is as good as it looks on the chart so it's uh yeah it's round to so I got to get got to get through this storm and now and uh and then start looking again for another window to uh uh jump down the shell or or at least a Lunenburg uh to re provision and then hopefully find some weather to jump across the Gulf of Maine uh the cape con I've decided I'm going to go in and anchor in this area called sh Bay and uh there's some anchor symbols on the chart and uh I don't want to push my luck with this wind um I suspect it's going to go down with the sun um so uh so it leaves us a little short of ship Harbor but not not that much um uh it's less than 10 miles to ship Harbor from where we are all right we should be able to pass right between these islands here I'm just going to go slow with Mr T pushing me through there's not much wind anyway and just follow the chart poter a little bit of wind coming in we haven't hit anything yet that's good we should be able to bear away a bit I can set the mainil should be able just to SA into the main a little bit yeah go get the stasel up in a minute going to finish my breakfast first and then set the stacil [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] he oh the guide book says ship Harbor is a place of great Beauty Bo they weren't kidding look at this it's also uh it's an extremely warm day I this is kind of an Indian summer here so I'm I'm back to just being in a t-shirt per perfectly comfortable so I'm in uh last week it was you know I had that long sleeves and and often a jacket on what look at that I mean it's just a [Music] postcard consider supporting this channel by becoming a patron as a patron you will be able to view my videos free of ads you will also be able to leave comments ask questions and message me directly you can become a patron for as little as $5 a month

Channel: How to Sail Oceans

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Id: PKDd2l_Aqr0

Length: 10min 47sec (647 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 04 2024