Travel with Albion - Thursday

Thursday  September 20th

 

The moon is now half in the southern sky.  We departed before sunrise on a very clear star filled morning with Venus looming large in the Eastern sky.  Spotlight in hand, Bill on the bow as we negotiated our way around the seawalls and out of the darkness into the open sea.  We watched to the East as the lights of Port Elgin became smaller.  The sky was full orange across the horizon as the sun came up bringing the hope of a warm day.  How different then our every layer arrival into Port Elgin.

 

Seas not smooth, but calm, winds out of the NNE as we headed south.  Nice being out again, never been held back 6 out of 10 days…

 

Lots of Wind Mills along the Eastern Canadian shore.  The waters have that Caribbean look.  The winds picked up and we sailed wing to wing into Goderich, love that point of sail. We were flying at 6-7 knots.   Goderich is the largest town on all of Lake Huron, but it doesn't seem very big.  You get two sun sets in one night here.  First at the beach, then you run up the hill behind and see it all again.  

 

There was a surge in the channel coming in.  Our rudder bumped the Sandy bottom…A day or two to Port Huron.  As sailing goes, it depends.  Then end of the season is near…