After two weeks on the hard Zee spashed again with a brand new bottom. The next day, Tuesday September 14 at noon, I sailed out of Souris heading south to Havre Boucher anchorage. The wind was NW 20kts and the waves built all day to the point that I got nervous about the shallow entrance at the bottom of the bay so I hove-to for a couple hours to let the waves die down before entering at midnight. The next day was rainy and miserable so I waited until the next day to head for the Canso lock and then on through the Lennox passage to St. Peters where I waited overnight to lock through to the Bras d’Or lakes.

I sailed into the Bras d’Ors on the morning of Friday Sept 17. It was like sailing in Algonquin Park, but with seals! The sailing was so perfect I didn’t stop until I arrived in Baddeck.

After 5 days in beautiful Baddeck it was time to head to Halifax. So on Wednesday September 22 at 10:45 I was off to St. Peters locks again. Locked through on Thursday morning but decided to hold off a day for better winds on Friday.

28.5 hours, 150 nautical miles later I arrived at Dartmouth Yacht Club. I spent the weekend there but sailed over to Armdale Yacht Club on Monday.