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Kate and Ann Marie’s First Sailing Trip Up The River

the buoys that separate the navigable
areas from the shoals and shallow
By Christine Ouellet
waters, anchor in strong currents
and not lose their cool when docking
at a new marina for unexpected
maintenance.
Kate had been sailing for a while on Kate tells her story of anchoring
smaller boats while Ann Marie was in small bays and seizing every
relatively new to the sailing world opportunity to explore some of the
when they decided to buy Amorce, a islands.
larger C &C 26. “Being in the Thousand Islands
Gradually, they familiarized was beautiful. We felt lucky to be
themselves with the boat’s on a boat with so many other like-
capabilities, learning to control the minded sailors, ready to share their
craft in various weather conditions. expertise. In three days, we sailed up
On Saturday, August 17th, along to Kingston, and spent the night at the
with several boats from SYC, they Confederation Basin Marina. About
embarked on a week-long voyage twenty-five of us joined together and
up the St-Lawrence River, sailing had a great supper at the Kingston
and motoring from Long Sault to Brewing Company. It was great to
Kingston and back. see everyone.” Photo Submitted
Many new challenges put their “The next day, we headed out New York, adding that experience boat before and we spent a wonderful
patience to the test. Within one week, of Kingston and made it as far as to our repertoire. A few hours later, evening together, sharing ideas,
they went from an intermediate to Amherst Island, sailed through we returned to our shelter of Brakey experiences, and planning the next
advanced sailing level. They had to the thousand Laser sailboats Bay. Just before our arrival, we came day.”
face high waves on Lake Ontario, participating in the CORK trials, nose to nose with our buddies who To cover all that distance in eight
near gale-force winds, strong turned around and headed back down had made the heroic trek out to Main days was quite an achievement and by
currents, heavy maritime traffic, to Brakey Bay on Wolf Island where Duck Island. Incredibly, the crew of Friday, the expedition was coming to
encounters with the big lakers, ferries we spent the night. The following the Sealestial, after sailing for eleven an end. “Early morning, we pulled up
and fishermen. morning, we tagged along with the hours, was able to put on a spread
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They learned to navigate between other boats and headed for Clayton, like we had never seen before on a Continued on page 19

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two days a week when she practices with the Ken Sei Kai Martial Arts Academy. Andrea says karate

Although Kaeden plays soccer in the Glengarry Soccer League and participates on school teams, his
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