It started with a daydream: take my boat, SeaHag, a 1996 Rosborough RF246 LSV, to the southern shore of Newfoundland.
I was only three years into boating, and my experience was limited to the region around my home port of Cape Vincent, New York, where Lake Ontario spills into the St. Lawrence River. The southern shore of Newfoundland is much different. It’s wild and remote. The region is dotted with tiny fishing outports, many of them abandoned since the cod fisheries have died. Better to visit them now, while they are still there. I also wanted to explore the many fjords that abound along this craggy shoreline. There would be no services, so cruising there would have to be a completely self-sufficient adventure.
