Day 23. July 17, 2025

Phil got up early today at 6am. I woke up 1 hour later. Last night we had a rain storm about 0230 so Lorraine got up to close the ports and hatches.

Lorraine work with 7 biggish bites left upper thigh. I’m not sure what they are from. Any ideas? I put on this after bite gel but probably too late. I still have tiny bites at my ankles, and of course, Phil doesn’t have any! I guess I’m sweet? LOL. Later someone thought they were spider bites. Still looking for ideas.

The boat is moving a lot from the swells coming in from the harbor, but not uncomfortably so. Lucy couldn’t wait to get into the cockpit this morning.

Weather:

Inside boat temperature low 77.4°, high 87.1°, current 77.5°. Humidity low 65%, high 89% current 84% wet.

Outside: temp 74°, mostly cloudy, dewpoint 70°, humidity 89%, wind SW 18mph, sunset at 8:59 PM they’re predicting straight shower or thunderstorm possible high 75° low 53° when WNW 20 to 30 mph.

845 am. We rode our bikes to the main beach UP WIND in 22+ knots of wind, which was strong enough to blow the sand in the air. We ate the breakfast special at GT‘s on the beach bar.

After breakfast, we walked to the beach to see the waves. Surprising to us, there were some people swimming though there were not any lifeguards, which there are many when the beach is busy. Lorraine wanted to see what the waves were at the channel entrance so we rode the bikes along the nice concrete bike path. Here is the video of the west side of the channel. click on the arrow.

It was much less wavy in the channel. We saw two seedoo’s going out the channel to the rough waves. The first guy in the lead went out, went west and out of our site past the channel pyramid, while the other guy waited still in the channel trying to decide if he was gonna go out into the big waves or not. About five minutes later, the other guy came back and then both of them went to the little beach on the east side of the channel.

It started drizzling, so Phil and I started our way back to the club and fortunately for us we didn’t get any heavy rain. Lorraine stayed in on the covered deck to work on the posts for the blog. Lorraine was able to meet Diane and Peter at the clubhouse who owned the Nonsuch at dock. They didn’t stay long due to the drizzle and their house was the 10 minute walk away.

By 11:50 AM we were seeing peaks of sun coming out and 1215. Phil came to the deck to use Wi-Fi. He had been reading the New York Times on the boat and tried to nap, but wasn’t successful.

12:20 PM we went back to the boat and noticed that there is a sail/power boat in Kettle Creek Marina that’s moving around rhythmically to the dock and then to the post and then back-and-forth. The boat had smallish fenders on the port side and so was protected when it hit the dock and was tied up in such a way that it couldn’t hit the post on the right side. A woman from the marina, I’m presuming is Fiona, came along with some other people and tied up the boat using the port stern line that had gotten looseand that took care of everything. That was our excitement for the day. I do have a three minute video of the whole event as heads up for data.

Lorraine fixed ham and turkey sandwiches for lunch and then she had a nap till three. It’s one of those lazy days. Then she woke up to Dick Foster talking to Phil. Dick has lots of stories and we enjoy listening and sharing our own stories about cruising till about 5:30 when Lorraine started prepping for dinner. Dick and Ruth are one of the few couples that have gone cruising multiple times so we have a shared perspective.

Lorraine fixed dinner at the clubhouse cooking a pork loin chop on the grill, baby potatoes, cauliflower, baby carrots, and zucchini cooked in the same pot. Tony and Diane had dinner there too to visit us one last time. After hugs goodbye, we rode bikest to Broderick’s ice cream parlor for ice cream cones. Phil had his butter pecan and I tried lemon meringue, which was good, but didn’t have as much lemon flavor as I expected.

Back at the boat, we put the bikes away, put the solid hatch boards (usually put in the screen hatch boards) in and close the ports as it was 69° inside, 67° outside and was predicted to get down to 53° tonight which I think is the coldest predicted so far in the morning.

We checked the weather forecast, and the winds are predicted to be 10 kts from the northeast clocking to the east. The waves are supposed to be behind us so it looks like it’s a go day to go back to Fairport Harbor.

We so enjoyed going to Port Stanley and see our friends, who are so hospitable. It’s a nice little town.