Sailing Trance

Friday, July 4, 2025 Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸 Departed picturesque Lunenburg at 6:10am in the fog. Dropped anchor at 6:30pm in Southwest Cove in Owl’s Head Bay. Total miles traveled today, 72.4. For dinner I made baked meatballs with tomato sauce and peas topped with puff pastry. Euchre anyone? Sunset view from Trance Saturday, … Continue reading Onward to Canso

Thursday, July 3, 2025 anchor up at 6:30am another foggy, chilly morning, destination Lunenburg. Arrived about 12:30pm, on a mooring ball till tomorrow morning. Total miles traveled today, 38. Lunenburg is a fishing and shipbuilding port founded in 1753. This is a historic port town and UNESCO World Heritage Site. The towns layout is based … Continue reading Lunenburg

Tuesday, July 1, 2025 🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day! Departed the Northwest Arm around 8:30am, waved goodbye to Peter and Wendy. Traveled up Halifax Harbour to Bedford Basin. Halifax George’s Island Lighthouse (1919) Arrived at Bedford Basin Yacht Club at 10:30am, on a mooring ball. Total miles traveled today 12. Later found a laundromat nearby, spent … Continue reading Halifax

Friday, June 27, 2025 Our destination is Hubbards, St Margarets Bay, along with s/v Henry, for the night or 2, the forecast for tomorrow is rain. Total miles traveled today, 27. We both picked up mooring balls in front of the Tuna Blue Inn & Restaurant, made reservations for dinner. The food was great and … Continue reading St Margarets Bay again

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 anchor up at 12:15, destination Young Island. Total miles traveled 4.5. We visited with Peter and Terry, Ocean Cruising Club members. Peter is a “Port Officer.” Officers are a resource to visiting yachts regarding local information. Dan and I walked a bit of the island till the mosquitos were getting to … Continue reading Mahone Bay, continued

Monday, June 23, 2025 departed St Margarets Bay at 8:30am, going back to explore Mahone Bay a bit more. Total miles travelled today 26. Arrived in Mahone Bay Village at 1pm. We dropped anchor at the end of the mooring field, the Mahone Bay Civic Marina office is only open on weekends until July. We … Continue reading Mahone Bay, again

Saturday, June 21, 2025 total miles traveled today, 24 miles. Arrived at St. Margarets Sailing Club at 2:30pm. We met club members Sara and Jörg, on outside deck, had a lovely conversation with them. They invited us to join them for dinner, driving a short distance to the nearby Shining Waters Marina restaurant. We all … Continue reading St. Margarets Bay

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 departed the LaHave Yacht Club around 11:30am. Cross Island Lighthouse Dropped anchor in Heckmans Anchorage around 3:30pm, for the night. First time with our shiny new anchor chain! Total distance travelled today 23 miles. Boat projects today. Attempted to get the water maker running, it wouldn’t prime, ugh! Changed a sketchy … Continue reading Mahone Bay

Monday, June 15, 2025 total nautical miles traveled today, 50. 6:00pm we pickup a mooring ball, and s/v Celestial is rafted next to us, s/v Whim and s/v Rocky Rhode are rafted together on a mooring ball behind us. We had dinner with Barb and Tom from s/v Celestial on our boat. Barb made delicious … Continue reading Brooklyn and LaHave

Saturday, June 14, 2025 the morning started out with rain ending near 5pm. A few boat projects were completed as well as planning our next stops. We arranged to go to dinner with new friends Steven and Sarah from s/v Snow Bear who are also here in Shelburne. He is from the UK, she is … Continue reading More of Shelburne