Halloween - Castle Village 2021

 

Fogbound - Georgian Bay - Ontario -Small Boats Magazine

 

The Georgian Bay archipelago - Lake Huron is one of those magic spots (like the Boundary Waters) that I expect never to see.  Of course I'm stuck with the Penobscot and Muscongus Bays in Maine.  But there's a lot of fun to be had in surfing the web.

Fogbound - Small Boats Magazine

Fogbound

The Bustard Islands of Georgian Bay

Written by  TOM PAMPERIN

From Issue  SEPTEMBER 2018

The east side of the Bustard Islands was all shoals and breakers, with a broad band of granite shelves and outcroppings stretching half a mile or more offshore. Typical for Georgian Bay, I knew, where the safest routes run well outside to avoid the rocks, or follow the well-buoyed passages of the charted small-craft route that traverses Georgian Bay’s eastern shoreline.

Here in the Thirty Thousand Islands region, only kayaks and canoes—or a sail-and-oar cruiser with her board and rudder up—can manage to sneak through to the shore in most places. And even boats like my as-yet-unnamed Don Kurylko–designed Alaska beach cruiser have to pick their way carefully. Passing through the northern end of the Bustard Islands on my approach from the west, I had seen a few cottages and sailed past half a dozen larger boats in the main anchorage between Tie Island and Strawberry Island. Out here on the east side of the Bustards I was completely on my own.

End of the season

Season's last sail with Jonathan Blum

 

Snipe class： Raising Women's Participation

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Matthew Rhys Hits the Seas - The New York Times

Matthew Rhys Hits the Seas - The New York Times

By Gabrielle Bluestone

• Oct. 4, 2021, 11:06 a.m. ET
  
  Matthew Rhys never planned on buying an old wooden boat that would take four years, tens of thousands of dollars and quite a bit of his own manual labor to restore. But one night he was drinking whiskey and clicking through eBay, and, well, one thing led to another.
  
  Asked if there had been a bidding war for his 1930s Wheeler Playmate — Ernest Hemingway famously owned one — Mr. Rhys laughed so hard that he did an actual spit take.
  
  “No, and I’ll tell you very simply why. Because anyone who knows boats won’t go near a wooden boat,” he said. “And the people who I knew who do have boats, when I said, ‘I’ve bought a wooden boat,’ would say, ‘What? You idiot.’”
  
  But Mr. Rhys and his partner, the actress Keri Russell, happen to enjoy chartering wooden boats. They even celebrated Ms. Russell’s 40th birthday aboard one. Mr. Rhys is also a big fan of the 1930s — he’s currently playing the era’s most famous attorney, Perry Mason, on HBO — as well as of Mr. Hemingway. (Mr. Rhys also loves Hemingway puns: He named his charter company Moveable Feast NYC, and its website asks, “For whom the boat tours?”)
  

Issuma - in the eye of the storm

So when you are a real voyager you come prepared for The Eye of the Storm.

In this case it was Hurricane Larry which was becoming a post-tropical  cyclone as it hit Newfoundland.

Richard Hudson and Issuma were waiting for the waning hurricane in Little Bay, Marystown, NFL.

In circumstances like this being tied up to a dock presents its own risks: like the surge carrying you over the wharf, or the wind smashing you against the wharf.  That's when having on hand 200 meters of line of the right gage to tie you off to a rock on the other side of the cove is just the right thing.