The trip home

After two weeks in Cornwallis with the cadets we are on our way home.  We departed Digby on Saturday morning  at 5 am so we could make the out going tides.  Our first stop is going to be Yarmouth, NS.  It is 74 nm from Digby to Yarmouth. With the out going tides we averaged 7 knots or better from most of the trip.  When we went through Digby gut (passage between main land NS and Digby Neck) we reached speeds of 12 knots.
We arrived in Yarmouth at 5 pm and stayed at the marina right downtown.

Yarmouth light house

Yarmouth waterfront

Yarmouth Marina contact information

Yarmouth habour is very well marked with light buoys, light houses and channel markers. It's takes about one hour to reach the wharf for the mouth of the habour.  The marina has showers, fuel, water, wireless, washer, dryer and power.  The cost per night for a 36 foot boat was $64.00 which included everything.  There was also free wireless all along the waterfront which was provide by the town of Yarmouth.  The marina is right downtown and is an easy walk to stores and boating stores.

The next morning we departed early - 2 am so we could fallow out the rising tides which would provide us a push around Cape Sable.  The next stop for us is Shelburne yacht club for fuel and an overnight stay.  The trip here was pretty good with an average speed of 5 to 7 knots.  Total distance from Yarmouth to Shelburne is 78 nm.  We saw lots of marine life (seals, porpoise, leather back turtle)  around the area of Cape Sable.  There are also lots of sea birds as well.

Uncharted fish farms

Shelburne entrance light house

Shelburne Yacht Clubs docks

 Shelburne has a very night yacht club with all of the things a boat wants. Fuel, water, showers, wireless, pubs and a very night old downtown.  The only thing is that it is over 10 nm miles from the mouth of the habour into the marina.  The cost per night is $1.10 per foot.  Shelburne yacht club

We left Shelburne at 8 am and headed towards Lunberg which was our next stop on the way back to Halifax.  We had some great winds on the first part of the day but then they dropped and moved more on to our stern.  So we motored sailed the rest of the way. 

 Approaching Lunberg Habour

Light house marking Stbd side of approach to Lunberg Habour

The Ovens park

 

New Bluenose Schooner

We had a little bit of drama on our way in to Lunberg habour.  Just after passing the outer lighthouse we developed a major coolant leak on the top of our engine which caused us to rethink our approach to the wharf.  We came in under sail to almost the wharf dropped our  main sail and and just used the engine to give us a push towards the wharf.  The coolant issue turned out to be a crack in the metal coolant elbow just before the thermostat.

J P Weld is great stuff

Lundberg habour is now managed by the "Waterfront Development Corp" which has installed many floating dock along the wharfs.  Most of these docks have power, water and wireless.  The dock we were on (Zwickers) didn't have water.  Their are showers available the street on the east side of the town just passed the Boat Locker Yacht shop in a Red building.  There are many great stores in this town for repairing, storing or just plain shopping.  There is even a place that makes rum and vodka on site called "Iron Works"
The price for the dock was $30.00 for boats up to 30 feet and then $1.00 per foot after that.  Which is paid at the Boat Locker.

  Lunbergs visitors guide