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I am typing this while sitting on the boat in Tobermory’s Little Tub Harbor in brilliant sunshine after a tough day. We awakened this morning to pea soup fog. We had intended to leave at 0800 but rather than navigate the fog we delayed our departure until 1000 when most of the fog had burned off. Then things got worse when Lew turned the wrong way when backing away from the dock and promptly ran hard aground. He could not free himself. I put the dinghy down to go out and take his anchor from him so he could kedge off when one of the Tamarac Inn employees showed up and offered to tow him. Needless to say we accepted and after 10 minutes of trying Lew was free. We left the Bay without further incidents and motored out into a calm, foggy Lake. The visibility improved for a while and gave us the chance to see the beginning of the narrow Cape Hurd Channel.  Once we were lured past the first set of bouys the visibility dropped to 100 yards and we had to run from bouy to bouy using  just the chart plotter which proved to be very accurate and led us safely into Little Tub Harbor. We are having another margarita party tonight to celebrate our succeses today, and then eating on board Royal Eagle. Tomorrow we leave for Covered Portage a fabulous, well protected anchorage. Then we will truly be in the North Channel. I doubt I will be able to do a posting there so you probably will not hear from me until the next day when we go to Little Current.