To date Eleanor Tarr has sailed 3750 nm under my command in this fresh water paradise.
As a young man, with a newly acquired vessel, I set sail in the Spring of 2007, bringing Eleanor Tarr home to Peterborough for an electrical refit, and then back to the lakes. That summer as well as the warm season of 2008 I spent single handed sailing ( that is to say two hands attached to one soul) up to 49 deg North in the Nipigon River. July and a good portion of August were spent on Lake Superior, seeking weather and conditions to test my rig, and practice seaman like skills.
The summer of 2009 I sailed with crew, my soon to be wife, around many corners of Lake Ontario, living aboard into late fall whist she attended schooling in Kinsgton
“The Superior Way” by Bonnie Dahl was the most impressive Pilot Book I’ve used to date. Extremely reliable accurate descriptions and charts/diagrams of the tightest anchorages imaginable, with jagged rocks gravel bars and low tree limbs which would have made the hide-e-holes most uninviting had Bonnie’s clear instruction not been so reliable. While cruising Lake Superior, I twice shared an anchorage, and once saw a motor vessel as fuel stops are all but no existent on the Canadian side.
I may at some point give a more detailed account of this formative cruise but as mentioned somewhere else, blogging retroactively is a relatively dull thing to do.
Sailing Vessel Eleanor Tarr 