Lunenburg - Truro

Yesterday we had a great time touring Lunemburg. The picture is of the Picton Castle, which is in their Canadian Home port preparing for another Atlantic trip next spring. Behind her you can see a couple of masts from the Caledonia, which dies more local week-long sailings.

We also visited the rebuilding of the Blue Nose II. The original Blue Nose was sold to work in the Caribbean and sank while laden with bananas.

The Blue Nose II is a replica, but after 47 years was taken out of service as her hull was suffering from a condition called Hogging, where the hull is drooping, or flattening fore and aft. It gets to the point where the only fix is replacement. So they salvaged everything from the deck up, and also the ballast, and they are rebuilding the hull, using better materials and techniques to help prevent future hogging. This is a 15 million dollar project split half between Canada and Nova Scotia, and that is just to replace the hull and reuse the salvaged parts. The original Blue Nose cost $6,400 to build in the twenties, and that was already twice the cost of a normal ship of it's size at the time. That is quite a bit of inflation. The old hull of the Blue Nose II has been cut up into small chunks and can be purchased for a small fee. I think it would be attractive to artists and carvers to make Blue Nose art pieces using wood from the ship.

Anyways, we continued on to Maitland where we observed the tidal bore there. At that location it was interesting and mesmerizing but a little unspectacular. We continued to Truro in the dark and rain and hope to see a more spectacular tidal bore here this morning.