The sun was sinking low on that beautiful Friday and we headed across the way to Bear Island for our first overnight docking. One of the fabulous forum members offered to let us tie up and join him for a camp fire and a tour the next day.
We arrived before our host who was fighting the good fight in Friday traffic. As we approached the dock we could clearly see the water level was quite low. Our depth alarm went off. It was too shallow. Wow. My mate did a great job of reversing engines before we scraped bottom.
So now what? We were homeless. We called our friends down at Chase Island and asked if we could dock there for the night. We had planned on going there the next night anyway, so it wasn't a complete surprise. Luckily we got a hold of them and they gladly agreed. However the sky was turning very dark and the sun was setting. We were at least an hour away from Chase.
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