Sun, rain and howling wind

Friday August 4th

Another gorgeous sunny day, and the boys took out the fishing gear after a morning swim. I’m hoping they last a while so I can get rid of the box of worms in my ice box….
Thomas caught many perch and sunfish, and told us all about how they studied fish with Mme Luce this year at school. Liam caught a large perch, probably something between 1.5-2 pounds. They were pulling the fish out faster than I could make my way out to see them!

Paul and Laurie joined us around lunchtime. We had initially planned to stay another night and sail the next day but the forecast has changed and the weather service is sending all sorts of watches and warnings. Sugar Island is narrow so not a good spot to weather a blow for larger boats. We decided to head to Brakey bay (we’ve never been but it’s a well known spot for Paul and Laurie). On our way and the sky was quickly turning angry. We saw lightning and the clouds were rolling towards us. As we were anchoring in Brakey bay, the wind shifted and the rain (correction, downpour) began. In a matter of seconds we were drenched! But anchored!

We took Scream over to join the crew on 2Outrageous for a very nice supper, in great company. It was nice catching up with them and hearing about their time in the Bahamas. We came back to Whisper in the rain and wind, put our stuff to dry and hunkered down for the night. It was quite a blow but we had an easier night than Paul did; they had to reset their anchor during the night. All in all, it was a totally outrageous night for sure. At least the rain finally stopped early this morning, but the wind is not letting up and the sky is still looking very grey and angry. We decided it’s going to be a day at anchor; a few little projects on the boat (oil change, repair a screen, cleaning, etc), some reading and some games (thanks to Marc and Camille for L’ile interdite!).

The wind continued howling throughout most of the night, but sometime around 2 am, it died down. The sky cleared, and we had a beautiful full moon, the stars were out in all their glory, competing with all the mast lights in the bay.

Sunday August 6th

A decent breeze and no sign of rain, so we decided to head to Simcoe bay off Wolffe island with Paul and Laurie. We took a head start but it was not long before 2Outrageous caught up to us. We had a glorious sail for nearly 5 hours, flying between 3 and 5 knots (while dragging Scream which slows us down at least a knot), but as we were nearing Kingston, the sky started getting nasty and the wind was picking up, as well as the waves…Sebastien took a reef, and just in time too because you guessed it, another storm came in. Scream was taking a beating in the waves, so we decided that Simcoe would have to wait for another day and we headed into Confederation basin in Kingston. We got soaked yet again but we are now tied to a dock and it seems we are between 2 storms. And now, time for a hot shower!