Saturday 25th June 2016  43:50.180 N  66:07.394 W

Distance sailed 33 miles.

Early start again yesterday to catch the tide leaving Westport and Shelduck had soon reached 9.7 knots in the swirling waters of the Grand Passage. This was followed by a gentle sail to Yarmouth. We berthed at Killam Marina and decided to stay two nights to get some rest after all these days of early starts with another one planned for tomorrow. The Killam family started what came to be a famous shipping company in the early 1800’s and it survived to the death of Robert Killam in 1991. For five generations they played a major role in Yarmouth’s financial growth. Their office building is now a museum of the business and also houses the marina manager’s office. The harbour is one of Canada’s most important fishing ports with trawlers fishing for herring using a tender, which is pulled up the trawler’s stern for easy deployment and recovery. This tender holds one end of the net and helps the trawler encircle the herrings with a huge net. Yarmouth is also the destination for a large catamaran ferry to and from Portland Maine.

Tomorrow Sunday is now our day to round Cape Sable and I have been advised to leave here at 01.00 to do so.