Summerside to Shediac

Let's go sailing. Testing the waters we motored out of the channel, " Yeah! Gusting to 25 knots, waves under 3 feet, so we set a double reef in the main and furl the genoa to 80%". We have 13 miles of wave protection from the north, all good. As we got to the 10 mile mark the waves stared to criss-cross for the next 3 miles, than the fetch stretched out to Gaspe Bay and the rollers rolled in. Much nicer. Made great time going across the Northhumberland Strait until we discovered that the drifting sand bar on the final approach to Shediac did not follow the charts and we park Summer Wine on top. We tried tipping the boat using an anchor tided to the spinniker halyard, but no luck due to the wing keel. We checked the tide tables and found we run aground at low tide and the high tide was 6 hours away. So we cooked dinner played 3 games of crib, did dishes, swore a bit and drove off at 11:30 p.m. with no problems.  During this time we did notify the coast guard when our first attempts failed and told them we may need their assistance in case we are unable to free the boat before the next high tide. Notifying them makes their job easier if they have the heads up. (once again a Sea at Sae course tip.)

Made it into Shediac Yacht Club in pitch black night with no issues. It was no surprise to the Shediac sailors that we found that bar, as most of them have found it too.