September
29 Monday,
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY Quentin & Todd!!
We left Owen Sound on the 27th around 2 pm
and made it as far as White Cloud Island. We were meeting friends there
and we knew we wouldn’t get to Midland anyway, having left too late. It was hard saying goodbye to everyone but we
will be back in the spring.
We got to White Cloud around 7:30pm. We
didn’t have any wind and babying the new motor along made us slower than we
anticipated. The weather was awesome. I think maybe the universe has given up
on trying to slow us down ...our determination has finally triumphed! Now if only
Lotto Canada would cut us some slack! “ I prob’ly shouldn’t a said that.”
We left White Cloud at 9 a.m. after having
coffee and showing off the boat to our friends, who have a gorgeous Bertram
Trojan that you could hold a dance in! But he’s 6 feet tall and doesn’t fit in
our boat without a lot of bending and folding...like Jack and Gary and Joe...and
come to think of it, almost everyone taller than 5’6”. I guess we’re the water
equivalent of a hobbit hole. I LOVE it!
So we got as far as Thunder Bay. Everybody
freaked when I texted that...no, we didn’t go the wrong way! There is a Thunder Bay at the top of Nottawasaga
Bay. It was dark when we anchored so it was a good thing we decide to run in
there.
This morning we left early...730.am, and
got to Queen’s Cove Marina in Victoria Harbour at 12:30 pm.
The
nice lady at Queen’s Cove who took our call is from Port Elgin and Bill Walker’s
sister-in-law (for you non-O/S-ers , he’s the MP). We were originally headed
for Dutchman’s Cove but they can’t take boats wider than 15 feet. (we are 16.5’)
We called Doral but they wanted $300.00 to take down the mast and they were even
further away from Port Severn. It took 2 hours and a lot of messing about to
get the mast set on the deck and under the top without ripping down wires and balanced
but we did it.
We are now sitting in front of the first
lock at Port Severn. %#@&^ government office doesn’t open until 10 am and
the last lock closes at 3:30 every day
so we are going to have to boogie to get through in 12 days. There are 45 locks:
that’s 4 per day and we still have to
cross Lake Simcoe as well. We should be good as long as the weather holds. It has
been amazing. Oh, I said that already. Of course, we had awesome wind as soon
as the sails came off, and I expect we will have beautiful sailing weather all
the way to New York, when the sails go back on.
So we are getting to bed earlier ever
night as the dark comes quickly now. I won’t be having tea tonight. There’s
quite a noisy waterfall beside us and I don’t need any extra encouragement to
get 16 times.
Tomorrow will be exciting...hopefully I
can keep my mouth shut this time and we will get through with no hassle. Today I
tried to cancel my phone and someone in a foreign country wouldn’t let me because
apparently I don’t have one...they are both in Rick’s name and they won’t talk
to me. So don’t be surprised if you can’t reach us at all after tomorrow. We
are going to MAKE SURE they cancel our phones!!!
However, I can blog with no problem, so
you will hear from us in the next few days. Locks are boring after you’ve done
one or two so don’t get worried if I have nothing to report. ‘Scuse me a minute
...that damned waterfall...
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