Days 34 & 35 — August 10 & 11 — Evandale back to the RKYC and A Lay Day There — 23 NM

It was our first day with the sails up after half a dozen passages without. Well motor sailing with only the small jib. We were on close reach courses for the first half, and then without the engine but assisted by tidal flow with the wind a aft the beam during the second half of the passage. New Brunswick style lighthouse. 

At the Royal Kennebecasis YC. (my initials) where we stayed our first two nights in the River, it was the Thursday of the biweekly catered dinner. Oh, but the caterer requires reservations byWednesday night, so we were out of luck. But not really. Two members who were not going to the  Club’s catered dinner offered us a ride to Mi Mi Mi, a Chinese restaurant half a mile away. Good food. Good conversation with a woman at a nearby table who was  waiting for the rest of her friends to arrive. She is a sailor too, and learning of our plan to walk to the supermarket, about a mile away, and get a cab back to the club with our bags of groceries, offered us her car. We took the groceries to the dink, drove back to the restaurant, and walked back. It can be tough getting in enough walking while cruising.

And speaking of the kindness of strangers, back in Gageville, Lene lost a hat when it blew off while we were trying to get to our mooring. Of well, just property, no personal injury. We did not stop to try to retrieve it and I thought it had sunk. Biodegradable waste. But here at RKYC we heard an Ahoy! A stranger had rescued the hat and remembering our boat, brought it over to us. No reward accepted.

We had planned to exit the River though the reversing falls on the 11th, and sail to nearby Dipper Harbor. That was because the high slack on the 11th was too late in the day for the crossing of the Bay of Fundy yo Digby Nova Scotia (about 50 miles) that same day. But the weather was heavy rain and my mate came up with the clever idea to better our lives that my stubborn plow ahead manner had caused me to overlook. We have plans to meet our Nova Scotian friends, Greg and Wanda, on Saturday. The change is to exit the falls at low tide slack on Saturday, skip Dipper and head straight for Digby. It will work with a 6:30 a.m. departure, crossing the falls at 7:30, and arrival in Digby by mid afternoon. We have a reservation for ILENE and will spend the night in a hotel. So what about the layday?  All morning, heavy rain. This time we met Glenn, the owner of “Ishmael 1”, the other Saga 43 moored at the RKYC. Plans for breakfast or dinner failed, but Glenn graciously drove us to and picked us up from a movie theater where we saw Oppenheimer.

And now, early to bed, for an early departure tomorrow.