Zenobia the laundry scow.
For those of you who aren’t signed up for the mass email list – we hit some bad weather, well not really weather as much as really strong winds and very steep waves, which amounted to a really rought We spent about 36 hours awake and being rocked around during our passage from mainland Quebec to the Magdalen Islands. I was sea sick for about 34 of the 36 hours and Adam was pretty ill as well; we shared a bucket as we lay on the floor of the cabin unable to sail in the direction that we wanted to go and the motored not enough to get over the waves. We bounced around between an island and the freighter channel very nervous but too sick to do much of anything. Many of the items that we thought had been “stowed”, and many of the items that we weren’t able to get to before the wind came up were all around us. Adam mentioned afterward that he was glad that he purchased the pelican case for the computer because he found himself stepping on it more than once throughout the ordeal. Adam was great and in between rescuing an escaping sail from the sea and passing out beside be on the floor, he tried his best to get us going . . . anywhere. In the end we made it to the Magdalen Islands on the evening of the 25th, much to our surprise and relief. We slept for 12 hours and spent the next several days doing laundry and generally trying to get things back to normal. Adam went up the mast to survey some of the damage but only found a couple of issues. We are currently working on a list of things to do before the big passage and have definitely decided that we have to go to Sydney NS, in order to get some supplies that we can’t find here.