Still on Catskill Creek

Friday 26th September
Rainy, rainy day. Not a day for putting sails up which is the next task. So we go shopping for provisions. This involves a long walk up a hill and a long walk back carrying stuff, as our attempt to get a taxi is a failure.

Saturday 27th September
Using our final day on a dock with power to drill some holes and install an anchor roller for our second anchor.

Then in comes this boat to have their mast stepped and it's someone well known in Canadian Sailing circles. Paul and Cheryl Shard have a TV program called Distant Shores documenting their travels across the Atlantic and in the Mediterranean. Right now they're doing the Intracoastal and the Bahamas and they use Hop-O-Nose to get their beautiful new boat (an English built Southerly 42) in sailboat condition.


We both got a tour of the inside and got some good tips from these very experienced sailors.

It`s time to leave the marina but we have to hang around the area to get the wi-fi antenna that failed to get delivered before we got here. So we head out into the creek and anchor out round the corner from the marina. It`s good to be `on the hook` rather than at a dock.

Sunday 28th September
Time to get the new outboard engine operating to take Buddy a walk, so with Carol winching a halyard we raise and lower the motor from its mounts and on the to the back of the dinghy - not that difficult really. The motor starts on the second pull and Buddy and I are off.

It`s a funny old day weather wise, intermittently raining, but we get the sails on to the poles and we`ll be ready to roll as soon as our part arrives.

Monday 29th September
By the time we got the missing pieces it was mid-afternoon, laundry needed doing and other odd jobs, so it`s another night on Catskill Creek.

We've added a new thing to the blog. You can see where we are and the places we stayed on a Google map by clicking the link on the left of the web-page or clicking this: Where are we now?.