Snow Squalls and Weather Windows: A Week in Shelburne
October 14th, 2018 :: Day 112
We had arrived in Shelburne a bit weary after beating into the wind for over double the amount of…
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October 14th, 2018 :: Day 112
We had arrived in Shelburne a bit weary after beating into the wind for over double the amount of…
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October 3rd, 2018 :: Day 101
It was time. We’d been in Halifax getting work done on the boat and waiting for hurricane season to…
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Day 100 – October 2nd.
We are still alive. No one has fallen overboard. We haven’t hit another boat. We haven’t killed each other.
In fact,…
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September 28: Day 96
When Ben and John contacted me a few weeks back to let me know that they would be coming to Halifax,…
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September 21st :: Day 89
Hard to believe it’s the fall equinox and we have reached the official last day of summer. The nights are…
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September 20th :: Day 88
Had a wonderful day today with Colleen and Paul: our lovely new friends that own the fabulous vessel Blue Eden….
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September 15th: Day 83
John and I decided to get out of the marina and head downtown. I wanted to check out the Halifax Seaport…
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September 7, 2018 – Day 75.
Our last stretch along the Canso Causeway brought us out along Chedabucto Bay and gave us the option of taking…
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September 1st: a beautiful, cool, morning with barely any wind on a glassy, rippled body of water. Like travelling on liquid silver. The swells…
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...