Spice has arrived! Into my life, at any rate. I purchased her from the New Bedford Yacht Club Foundation who had been using her as an offshore sail training platform for teenaged sailors at their club, and have brought her to her new home in Chester, Nova Scotia.
We had a reasonably uneventful trip over, with some discomfort crossing the Gulf of Maine due to waves coming from multiple directions, but fundamentally got home safe and sound with no failures or major stresses to report. Checking into Nova Scotia/Canada was more of a pain than usual: due to Covid it was no longer possible to arrive anywhere you’d like and call in, it was necessary to arrive at one of the designated ports to call. So instead of South Shore Marine in Chester Basin, we wound up at Shining Waters Marina in Tantallon where we left her for the night and returned to sail her the final, short leg, the following morning.
Here’s the happy crew on board after clearing customs:
And a representative picture of the journey:
On the dock in Tantallon (main not put away very nicely!):
On the dock at South Shore Marine:
And finally at her mooring at CYC:
