Left Rimouski on the 13th on a peaceful, calm morning with some fog in the distance. Decided to sail by the spot where the Empress of Ireland sank. There is a memorial erected in the water that you can see. It was eerie sailing over the spot where we knew so many people had lost their lives and be able to see land so close.....
Empress of Ireland Memorial
Afterwards we set up our fog horn as there was fog on the horizon and we wanted to be prepared.....too much Empress of Ireland story in our heads!! As it turned out we never did run in to fog, and in fact managed to get a little sail in before the wind died down again!
Wyvern III Foghorn!! Hey it works, AND it's automatic!!!
About 6:00 pm we arrive at the harbour of Matane. We had decided to anchor just outside behind a breakwater instead of going in to the harbour. When we arrived, though, there, right in our planned spot was a sailboat!!.....the first one we had seen all day!! Wouldn't you know it! No big deal, we went for a second choice (there wasn't a lot of room for choosing due to depth of water, prevailing winds, etc) and just as we dropped the anchor, we saw a mysterious floating object...what the heck?? We assumed it was a giant 'deadhead' (a water-soaked piece of wood that floats 'upright') but it also looked like the tip of a rock, and it didn't seem to be moving! Hmmm. We decided that discretion was the better part of valour and we picked up our anchor and moved to yet another spot! That deadhead would have been right in our 'swing circle' and we didn't like the idea of hitting it in the middle of the night! After we moved, the deadhead disappeared! We looked for it again the next morning with the low tide, but still no mysterious deadhead! We finally settled down to dinner and a beautiful sunset!!! It was a fairly 'lumpy' anchorage with lots of water movement, but hardly any wind, so we were rocked to sleep under a starry sky!
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