The Bridge to Pictou
August 29th, 2018 – After eleven days of being spoiled in Summerside, we found ourselves dodging lobster traps once again through the Northumberland Strait…
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August 29th, 2018 – After eleven days of being spoiled in Summerside, we found ourselves dodging lobster traps once again through the Northumberland Strait…
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Sixty days. Things are shifting. Learning to let go of control and quite literally, going with the tide. The weather is boss, followed by…
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August 17th, 2018 – Eighteen hours on the water from our somewhat successful stopover at Escuminac to Prince Edward Island.
The first nine hours were done…
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August 15, 2018 – Blue skies in front of us, weather behind. We left Bay du Vin for our return to Escuminac with a…
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Sunday, August 12, 2018: I had been looking forward to this for days. If the weather was right, we would be in an ideal…
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August 7th, 2018: We crossed the bay to New Brunswick on a quiet, and foggy day. We were kept company by a few seals…
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August 4th: Needing a break and a nap after our forced concert experience, as well as some time cleaning up the tumultuousness that the…
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August 1st, 2018: There had been several jobs that just didn’t get done before we departed Hamilton for our adventure. We weren’t concerned, they…
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We don’t have a working fuel gage on the boat. We also have a fuel tank that’s tipped at an angle in the bilge….
Seems you've found us. I'm one half of the charming and somewhat frustrating duo that is John & Michelle. (I'm Michelle) We once had this one-day idea that we wanted to sail around the world. We made a five year plan. After ten years of talking and two years of prepping and postponing, we are finally underway. Feel free to follow us and live vicariously though our pratfalls and adventures as we take our almost-as-old-as-John Bayfield 40 Cutter Ketch out of the safety of Lake Ontario and out into the world. On a shoestring budget. With two fiercely independent people. In basically 300-ish square feet of living space and with not a heck of a lot of sailing experience (yet) ...This is going to be fun...
