Well, we are having our first Sit-Around….After we left Jay in Tadoussac, we crossed from the north shore to the south as we headed towards Isle du Bic and onwards to Rimouski.We had a flat calm crossing, which I assume is rare as the river is over 12 miles wide at this point, saw a few whales and arrived in good time. With a blow coming in from the northeast we assumed we would be staying a couple of days.
We miss Jay, for a prairie boy he was great on a boat..come back to us you little scum, I have to mix my own rum now. Although, after our lovely steakhouse supper in Rimouski, we found out it was $1.50 Jagermeister shots, and we felt lucky that we did not have the JAGERMONSTER on our hands. Back to back to back bombs started the night off and after taking in some live music, we got home at 2 am. Good night except Blair noticed in the morning he had forgotten his sweater in town. Blowin and rainin next day so we slept in and made huge brunch. Quiet day o reading and sleeping.
We didn’t even have our first beer till 6 pm, a first on this trip as we usually start before noon. The crew is maturing we think? Well, after a lovely shrimp curry, which we needed a few bottles o wine to finish (spicy), we got into some story and joketelling and #1’s flask of liquer. I quote Blairs first words the next morning “This trip is turning into one big F#@*ing hangover”. Bad weather again keeps us stranded.
It is Sunday and we are getting restless. Well I am anyway. Weather window coming tomorrow so we will be up at 4am. Glad to be moving on. We met a really nice couple here Louis and Clemence, and they took us to get groceries and propane over the weekend and also gave us some advice on the trip to Gaspe from his 50 years of boating knowledge in the area. Great people.
The next leg to Gaspe is the most exposed and remote part of our trip and is over 200 miles. Wish us good sailing. This is the ocean now.
Have ye ever been to sea Ricky? Aye, and I’ve been Blown ashore………