8/7/15  Portage Cove to Yankee Harbor

      0600 we had a calm wind in anchorage and we got under weigh at 0610,  West bound.  Almost immediately we met a large Southwest swell and Southwest wind waves came following.  The Willie Dawes did a lot of climbing over waves, sliding through troughs, and generally banging around.  It was 8 miles to Whitehead bay so we set the main to steady us and pressed on.  

      We encountered a wild sea at the entrance to the bay. So much mist from breakers that it clouded the air.  Made anchorage on East side of a fish farm, 0900 off entrance to the basin in Yankee Cove,  but due to the current we decided to move to West side.   The anchor didn't want to come up.  It's a Rocna, and they like to dig in, but this was more resistance than we'd encountered.   Fouled on underwater cable?  From the fish farm maybe?  We could only get it to within 15 feet of the surface. So I fashioned a makeshift hook and was able to hook the roll-bar of the Rocna anchor and slack the chain to free us from the cable.   Or whatever it was.  Phew!  We found a nice spot West of that farm, later joined by three Halifax Sloops we had met in Bras d'Or Lake:  the  Jan-Les, J.J., and Thundercloud.  All four of us stayed snug from the wind and sea in Yankee Cove.