Aug 192014
 

After the wild, remote North Coast we are now safely ensconced in beautiful Notre Dame Bay – in the Green Bay section, anchored near Squid Cove, opposite the town of Triton Harbour. Again waiting out strong winds and heavy rain to cease before we move towards Lewisporte, which is only 40 miles from here.

It’s been a fantastic trip down from the North East Coast/St Anthony, I’ve created a web photo gallery to show some of the highlights, click the link to open the gallery that goes with the text below.

http://finnevans.ca/Triton/

Rounding Cape St John

Rounding Cape St John

We start on the Public Dock in St Anthony, the crew of the tug Kaliutik helped us tie up and loaned us a very long extension cord to help power and charge Phanty.  Those tall fishing boat dock are something else to attach to then scale! From there we toured Dr. Grenfell’s House and the excellent museum honoring the work and dedication of him, his wife and the incredible health services they provided on this then so very remote coast. A nice berg was grounded in the outer harbor, seen from behind the Grenfell Home/Museum. The poor bear that drifted into town on an ice flow is forever preserved in a glass case at town hall.

We left St Anthony with a not great forecast of 20+ knots, planning to sail 40 miles down the coast, with higher winds and significant waves encountered, Jayne and I decided to shelter in Maiden Arm, just 20 miles South. We spent 3 days there in a maelstrom of wind and rain – blew so much our small wind generator topped the batteries to full – 490+ amps! The thick muddy bottom of the cove held Phanty very fast and we collected rain water to drink while waiting it out, escaping for a walk on the beach on the second day.

Down the coast to Englee then up the fiord of Fourche Hr. to anchor under the cliffs at Northeast cove. A day spent wandering among the sad ruins of the last whaling station to operate, closed in 1971, in Newfoundland. The large tanks held whale oil and the winches were used to haul the carcasses of the poor creatures into bays for carving. Exiting the inlet, fog set in for part of the crossing to La Scie, where we were welcomed to the first floating dock since leaving Corner Brook on July 18th. We celebrate with a dockside banquet and sunlit view of the Scie (Saw) hills surrounding the harbor and town.

Leaving La Scie we struggled against some adverse winds as far as Bishops Rock off of magnificent Cape St. John where the wind faired and we enjoyed our first sail under spinnaker of this year’s trip.

The last group of pictures are of entering the pocket cove at Nippers Hr. It’s quite an amazing place, historic wooden churches, friendly fishermen gave us fresh cod fillets, hiking trails and another easy to access floating dock, “The Lion” rock (and berries), and two of Jayne’s painting at Noble’s Cove near Nippers. Jayne prepared a delicious moose stew from meat given to us by a fisherman at La Scie Marine, thanks Rex !

Sun is coming out a bit now and the boats swung round to point west – a good time to get ashore – up to Fudge’s Restaurant and make this post, also must call Lewisporte Marina and book a time to haulout next week.

  4 Responses to “North East Coast to Cape St John”

  1. LOVE that photo with the spinnaker out! Beautiful!

  2. Beautiful pics! Looks like the Nuud case & ipad are getting well used 🙂 xoxo

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