James Bay Prevost Island

July 23, 2009

No photos, I am roaming with my verizon card and so its too expensive.

Left Winter Cove about noon for another lazy start to the day as usual. We cruised by Otter Bay marina, nice place, again half empty, will have to stop by one day with the grand kids.
We stopped at the north end of Prevost and looked at Selby Cove but there were three boats in there already and it was blowing about 25 knots through the gap so we backed out and decided to drop anchor in James Bay where the wind is only about half as strong.
Wind just does not want to die off, staying about 10 to 15 knots out of the SE right over the top of the trees and into the bay. Were Ok, seems like we have a good bite with the hook so we should be fine. Anchor is hanging pretty much straight down with 200 feet of chain out we should be good to go. This is a very exposed anchorage if a northwest wind were to come up, we would not be able to stay here cause the fetch is fairly significant from the NW but all wind forecasts are for winds out of the S and SE and I am surprised this does not give better protection from those winds.

Just watched our neighbors on a sailboat rescue their dog. The dog fell off a cliff and they had to figure out how to get down to him and lead him back to the trail. Dog was fine and all returned safely to their boat.
I am amazed at some of the contraptions people have for shore boats. This guy took about 30 minutes trying to get it off the front of his sailboat and into the water. It’s a regular hard sided rowing dingy but its more effort than its worth to get it on and off the boat. Night before last we watched two adults try to squeeze into a 6 foot inflatable. It was all elbows and butts and not much room for anything else and on top of that it had a 2 hp motor on it and at top speed the person on the bow got their butt wet. I will say it was fairly light weight so they had no problem carrying it above the high water mark once they were able to crawl out of it on shore and somehow did that without getting too wet.

It looks like we might have a thunder storm tonight with a big buildup of clouds to the south. It is quite a bit cooler tonight but that is mostly due to the wind.