Sailing to Lady Boot Cove and Shawl Bay

We said our good byes to Carol and Jerry and motored slowly out of Echo Bay.  There was WIND so we decided to try and sail up to Lady Boot Cove (Eden Island East).  Part of what prompted us to sail NW against a NW wind was the fact that we are getting down close to only a quarter tank of fuel left.  Well, 9 tacks later, we sailed into Lady Boot Cove.  We gingerly made our way into the “toe” part of the cove and anchored in about 5m of water (nearly at low tide!!).  We had very peaceful evening.  Today dawned cloudy and wet but there was still some wind so we set sail (again with sails) towards Shawl Bay, about 12 miles away.  We managed to sail about half of it until the wind died.  Shawl Bay Marina is a funky little floating marina that is family run, now by the fourth generation.  Rob, the son, met us on the dock and we swapped lies for awhile after we tied up.  One story that I will share is his description of landing a 28 pound ling cod last year.  Apparently his gaff broke when he was landing the fish so with nothing to bash it’s brains in, he was seen leaning over into the back of the boat punching the fish in the head to try and kill it.  Apparently the comments made back at the dock (he was only 100m away when this all happened) were of the order “wasn’t that un-necessarily violent”.  Necessity is the mother of invention and what else are you going to do when you have 28 pound fish thrashing away in the bottom of the boat?  We filled up with water, had a hot shower on land, did a load of laundry and talked to a couple of young guys off a prawn boat.  We all decided on a new Reality TV show “The Worlds Friendliest Catch”.  They are really roughing it up here.  Days out fishing prawns and then back to the marina for a hot shower and dinner.  Not at all like the crab fishers in Alaska.  We are of to Greenway Sound tomorrow after our pancake breakfast which is included in the moorage here!!!