Sailing Nova Scotia - Out Bras d'Or Lakes and Up to Cape Breton Highlands - Practical Dreams
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- In this video Morgan, Moosely and I get underway aboard our Gulfstar 40 sailboat. We head out of the Bras d'Or Lakes and up to Cape Breton Highlands. Once there we head out for a beautiful bike ride. This is our last stop in Nova Scotia.
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Digging your channel! Nice to see something off the beaten track. Keep up the good work.
Much appreciated!
Just moved to Nova Scotia and will be bringing our new to us boat over from Rhode Island, really happy to see you putting out videos about sailing here, giving inspiration for future adventures! Great channel! Glad to have found ya :) If you end up coming around Yarmouth area ya let us know!
Thanks for the view and the comment. I hope you have a lovely voyage.
Back in the day when I was cruising, I sailed the Canadian maritime islands for 4 summers making it as far north as Happy Valley Labrador. On one of my trips north I took the route through Bras d'Or Lake on my way to Newfoundland and it was a great trip. Check out the Alexander Graham Bell museum in Baddeck if you go. This was back 12 years ago and these waters were very seldom cruised and I rarely saw another cruising boat after leaving Halifax.
We spent a few nights at Ingonish hr there at our friends place a little further in on a mooring ball. It will be our set off spot for next season to head to NL.
Ingonish is the only place on our whole trip that Morgan and I promised each other that we'll come back to. What a well protected harbor and nearby trails. Our kind of place.
Gee, you went right by our place on your bikes! Nice if you to visit!
Yikes that's a lot of current!
Ya that's me with the inboard jib leads. It looks like if you use that inboard track you need to move the lead aft as much as you can because you jib clew is higher than mine. Also you might get a better lead for the sheet and better shape with a higher block on the track since your clew is cut higher.
My family had a G40 when I was a kid in the late 70s and through the 80s that we raced extensively (it was the only boat I wanted to buy when I came up on retirement and I was lucky to find one). When we raced we had a 155% genoa that was cut with the clew very low and the foot would sweep the deck to make the sail more efficient. The sheet lead for that sail we lead on the outboard rail and it went through the gate, back to a turning block aft of the winch. The turning block was installed on a custom fit stainless bracket that we bolted on the outboard face of the cockpit coaming that was oriented so the sheets could be lead to any winch as a backup. We had the 155% genoa lead to the outboard rail because it overlapped so far aft that the clew was too far aft for the inboard rail. Also the rating rules back in those days allowed for 155% without any rating penalty, and on the light air Chesapeake, the extra sail area helped.
Thanks for posting your videos, I'll try to get some more up as well. We are racing this weekend (pray for wind), Annapolis to Cambridge, MD. Will try to get some clips up. I just bought a whisker pole, hope to have the running gear set up for it by the race.
The boat came with some large turning blocks that we haven't installed. We went back to using the outside track for our jib. The lead we cleaner and if I use my staysail I can use the inside track for that.
That is Seal Island bridge, and the mountain to your left is Kelly’s Mountain.
Keep an eye out for whales all through there.
Edit. Just saw the date.
I really like your videos and experiences but was surprised you both weren’t wearing your PFDs crossing that bar. Here in Australia its a legal requirement in most states when crossing bars, and conditions you showed certainly warranted having them on. Just my opinion as an experienced sailor. Cheers
Good point, Morgan and I have been inconsistent with wearing PFDs and I agreed those conditions certainly warranted having them on. I won't try and justify not putting safety first. Thanks for the reminder.
Ingonish Harbor?
Yessir
Less talk more sail
Sorry to have wasted your time.
Think you could spell Cape Breton correctly on your video thumbnail?