Hi Rick - yes, toured Fortress Louisbourg. Too big to do in just a day. (Unless you're a marathon museum goer type, which I'm not.) Only a fraction of the original site has been restored, and I would have liked to hike around the remaining foundations to get a sense of how big it was back when it was one of the busiest seaports on the continent, right up there with Boston, N.Y. and others.
Coincidentally, we're now in Quebec City, which has a connection with the Louisbourg fortress: both fell to the English one year apart, defeated by the same general. After destroying Louisbourg (they knocked down every wall and building to discourage the French from returning/rebuilding), the English fleet would have sailed much of the same route that we just covered to Quebec from the east coast.
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Mist of Avalon has a Caterpillar 3306 - 33L straight 6 cylinder diesel.
It ran almost non-stop for the past 5 days of 24 hour motorsailing. It (and we) are taking a one day breather in Quebec City before aiming for the St Lawrence Seaway and the 1000 Islands. The trip will wrap up in 4 days or so.
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FYI, we had a writer from the Halifax Chronicle Herald on board for two legs of the Nova Scotia tall ships event. He just posted his first of three instalments about his adventure:
Sailing with Mist of Avalon is magical - Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca