Tuesday, October 3, 2006

Traveled from Fairport, Ohio to Presque Isle (Erie)PA. We left port in a thunderstorm and it rained on and off all day. Very light winds, so we motored close to the Erie shorline. Presque Isle is a large natural harbor which has a state park and several large boat yards . While docking our boat, we went aground in "mud" but we were able to pull the boat off the bottom by reversing the engine, while I was pulling the boat over from dock-side with the help of a sailor docked ahead of us. Later, the dock captain told us "the water is shallow"- a reoccuring autumn problem. The sailor docked ahead of us, has been our sailing companion, off inthe distance, for the past two days so we got a chance to meet at dockside today. The couple is sailing to the Florida Keys so we will probably be "bumping" into eachother for the next few weeks. I believe they will taking the intercoastal waterway once they get into NJ, since we are a larger draft boat we will have to take route out to the Atlantic.



Leaving Fairport, Ohio















Sunrise at Fairport, Ohio. A flock of geese glided past our boat as we were leaving the harbor.













On Monday, we captured the skyline of Cleveland, Ohio about five miles off shore on a rainy afternoon.












I captured Gordon Lee at the computer entering our ship trak "longitude-latitude" position.