Battle Harbor is a narrow harbor between two islands, with narrower entrances. There is little protection from the wind, but rocks at the entrances prevent waves from entering the harbor. Battle Harbor was a fishing port since about 1775. After cod fishing stopped in Canada in the 1990s, the settlement became a historic site, operated by the Battle Harbor Historic Trust.

After the remnants of post-tropical depression Earl passed to the north of us, we went to Mary’s Harbor, and then to the fascinating historic site of Battle Harbor. More about Battle Harbor later. We planned to spend only a day in Battle Harbor, but Earl seems to like Labrador, and turned around and came back over us again, so we are sitting at the dock, waiting for the wind coming thru the entrance to moderate before we leave.

We anchored in a small, unnamed cove in St Lewis Inlet, in the south of Labrador to sit out post-tropical Earl. We are waiting for the resultant headwinds to decrease more before continuing. For those interested in the technical details of how we get weather forecasts at sea, I wrote this, http://www.issuma.com/rhudson/issumaboat/WeatherForecastsOnIssuma.htm