Day 87 – Friday, September 4, 2009

The weather was next to perfect! No wind, no waves and plenty of sunshine! John drove the dinghy and took me to shore to climb the rocky shore to untie our boats from their selected trees. Sometimes I think were two-thirds of the “Three Stooges”! Considering everything…………we accomplished our task and proceeded to raise our anchors. That’s when Johns anchor roller split and he couldn’t get the anchor up via his anchor windless. He manually had to pull it up and secure to the boat. We had a quick summit meeting over our radios and decided to head to a port that might have parts to repair the problem. We changed our schedule and cruised directly to the town of Kagawong, in Mudge Bay. John and I got the roller removed and hope to find one tomorrow in Gore Bay a larger town with a big marina that has a ships store. The people here did every thing they could to help but didn’t have the part needed to fix the boat.

Kagawong was on the list to visit ---- so after we quit working on the boat we walked to the Bridal Veil Falls about a half mile away. It turned out to be a nice little hike in the woods and a nice break from living on the boat.

It’s getting late in the season up here and our two boats are the only transient boats that have been here in the past three days. The town restaurant is closed and Monday, Sept. 7th the town is closing the marina for the season! That seams early to me as most marinas will stay open through the end of September. It’s time that we start working our way out of Canada and return to the States. I think we will be out of the North Channel in two or three days.