August 9 – Thursday

We bid our new friends goodbye this morning and headed out towards the Benjamin’s. The furling line is chafed, we tried reversing it en route, but that didn’t help much. I hope it doesn’t break before I get a chance to replace it. We motored out amongst the rocks to the North Channel and set sail on a Port Tack close to the wind. We were beating and slamming waves so we altered our course more south so more of the windward hull was to the weather. Tacking back and forth to the Benjamins would make for a long slamming day. Oh well, we checked our charts for Ports South and found we were headed for Gore Bay, so here we are. Interesting, we must be destined to be here. We had a conversation before departure about which of the two ports to go too. Lots of waves splashing today, enjoyable sail. Pat had a wet sandwich for lunch…

The marina here in Gore Bay is huge, more like the marina’s in the USA Great Lake Cities. I didn’t expect that. The Eastern part of the North Channel has more traffic and is a boating destination. The water at the docks is crystal clear. Gore Bay has every thing a boater could want. Marine store, grocery store where you can push the carts back to the dock…