Hard aground
When we left the yacht club that morning, my friend Ante and I were looking forward to another fine day of sailing. The evening should find us in Ceilidh’s cockpit with sundowners in hand, anchored in our preferred cove on Dowker Island in Lake St Louis in the St Lawrence River. Little did we know what was in store for us that afternoon!
As soon as we cleared the harbour we raised the sails and turned off the outboard. The weather was great and the wind just perfect.
Early afternoon found us entering the Lynch channel between Dowker and the mainland. About half a mile in front of us were two lateral buoys marking the entrance to the La Passe channel to our left. If we continued on our present course, we had only two more miles to sail before coming to the north-western end of the lake and reaching the lock at the village of Ste-Anne
