Day 340 - W.W.Y.D.? — Captain Father John

Miles cruised 59, fuel purchased $0, slip fee $60, daily high temperature 77°f

Let’s have a frank discussion regarding what it means to anchor out on a 45′ motor yacht without a generator. We do not have an inverter that would allow us to convert 12 volt to 110 volt. Why have an inverter when you have a generator? Can we overcome these first world inconveniences and anchor out in Georgian Bay for a night or two?

What will we not be able to use without our generator?

No Direct TV
No Jacuzzi
No air conditioning or heaters
No electric stove
No microwave
No toaster
No central vacuum
No washer/dryer
No hair dryer
No water boiler for coffee
No hot water heater for showers

What will we have that runs off the house battery and we can recharge with the engines:

Refrigerator and freezer
All the lights including the anchor light
Water pump for the sinks, showers and toilet
Recharge our phones and iPad so I can publish the blog
Hydraulic swim platform to launch the dingy
Anchor windlass
Radio at the helm for music

How would we cope?

We have a propane grill so we can cook and boil water ( thank you Dave Ashley )
We also have a one cup water boiler that we can plug into the 12 volt outlet ( thank you Sam and Denise )
We have 150 gallons of fresh water in our tanks
We could swim off the boat and wash up as well

WHAT WOULD YOU DO? WWYD – Email us at Jsimons@rustoleum.com

We shoved off at 10:00 am from Big Sound Marina in Parry Sound. I had walked into town earlier that morning and picked up some pastries from the local bakery to have for breakfast. It is not unusual for a small Canadian town to have more than one bakery.

Georgian Bay was a bit blowy. Not quite the forecast. We had waves 2′ – 3 ‘ on the nose for a while and then we turned north and had them more on the beam. We had dropped our speed down from 25 mph to 20 mph to smooth out our ride on the waves.

The channels are quite narrow and twisty. In this spot the channel is only 20’ wide at the most. It is like threading a needle.

We arrived at the St Amant’s Hotel and Marina at 1:30 pm after cruising 59 miles. It turns out St Amant’s is more of a trailer park than a hotel. However, they have a fairly robust general store with beer and wine and a wide selection of beef jerky. We had been warned by Laura and Artie not to eat at the marina hotel. We shall see, as it is the only restaurant within walking distance.

St Amant’s is in the town of Britt, Ontario. We went looking for Britt and all we found was the post office.

Bonus photo – The Canadian’s in Britt have an interesting sense of humor.

Carl (Chef) Wooden – quote of the day.

Peter Tangvald about his wife Lillemor after she decided that she didn’t like sailing.

“I had to choose between her and the boat, she said. Any sailor will know it is a lot more difficult to get a new boat than a new wife so I bought her a one-way ticket back to Norway.”

Peter Tangvald cruised around the world on board L’Artemis until he was wrecked on a reef off the east coast of Bonaire in 1991, supposedly because of a heart attack. Aboard was his daughter Carmen and son Thomas, who was 15 at the time. Thomas was the sole surviver. His stepsister Virginia Tangvald and her mother Florence were not on board.