Our Newfoundland Cruise

[HR]

My wife Donna and I, and our two dogs Storm and Zephyr have just returned from a month long cruise to the south coast of Newfoundland aboard our 40' ketch "Malolo".

We sailed from our home near Lunenburg, NS directly to the French island of St Pierre, just off the coast of Newfoundland. That's a distance of about 370nm and took us just under 3 days. We then hopped over to Fortune, Newfoundland, cruised the south coast from east to west and returned home from Rose Blanche, another 320nm journey.

All I can say is that this has to be among the finest cruising grounds anywhere. The geography is incredible and the people are the friendliest you could meet. And to show up in an old wooden boat, well, you're a hero (although the local fishermen couldn't understand why I wasn't planning on fiberglassing the hull)! We're already planning next year's trip.

A summary of our trip, from e-mails sent along the way is here (http://malolo.ca/shipslog/)

Photos, lots of photos :), are here (http://malolo.ca/gallery)

Hope you enjoy.

Howard

[Thad]

Thanks lots for the note and the great pictures

[Stari27]

Wow, what a great trip. Thank you for the photos and narration. Fair winds.
PetrB

[Thorne]

What a wonderful trip, and cool photos, too! Thanks.

[Dale R. Hamilton]

Damn HR- why would anybody take a dog- let alone two of them, on a 40' boat for a month. Didn't you get a little tired of cleaning up the poop every day? And then, theres the worry that one of them might take a nosedive over the rail. Sounds like a lovely trip- but I'd leave the hounds home.

[Bruce Hooke]

I remember meeting a couple who lived on board a 40' boat with two medium size dogs. All 4 of them shared the v-berth at night!

[Bruce Hooke]

Howard,

Thank you for the pictures and the stories. I have long dreamed of exploring that coastline. What I dream of even more is continuing north to Labrador...

- Bruce

[Sailor]

I agree about the scenery. I used to date a girl from Lord's Cove and was down around the Burin Peninsula fairly often. really nice scenery there.

[HR]

Dale, I'm afraid I don't agree. Our dogs are well trained (at least as far as the boat goes!). They stay in the cockpit except when we're at anchor or dock and they have been given permission to leave. As for "doing their business", when we're on a long passage they go below to a "litter box" we have set up in the head. When we're day sailing they go ashore with us and we pick up after them, as we do anywhere we go. They truly are terrific sailors.

Bruce, next year we hope to explore more of Newfoundland and Labrador as well.

Howard

[GregW]

Geat pictures. It would appear that you even had some sun, what luck! ;)

[JimD]

Great pics, thanks.

http://www.malolo.ca/gallery/albums/uploads/B/normal_IMGP3878.jpg

http://www.malolo.ca/gallery/albums/uploads/B/normal_IMGP3893.jpg

[uncas]

Great pictures etc. Howard.
I'm jealous from my keel to my mast head but am also glad you had a great trip.
Ceilidh is trained to a mat foreward. After doing her thing, I just throw the mat overboard and pull it back on board.

[seedy]

I love The Rock.

[johngsandusky]

Nice pics Howard. I loved your account of the cruise. Thanks.