We made a pleasant trip to Port Colborne today. We left at 10:00 in a light rain. When we arrived at 1:30 it was sunny - finally! The trip covered 24 miles. We motor sailed the entire way. Too much wind yesterday, too little today.
Kerry repaired my Canadian courtesy flag on the ride over. She called Customs to report our arrival, alcohol and cigars. We cleared entry with no issue.
We bought our first Canadian diesel, 37.5 litres. I had a wrong conversion from litres to gallons and thought I had used 20 gallons in 10 hours of motoring, when I should have used only 10. Stress again. Once I got the conversion correct I had used 9.91 gallons stress gone.
Kevin and Jennifer had been kind enough to give us a bottle of Myers Dark Rum to share with the Myers. So after we were docked we took some lime juice, tonic water and ice over to Windchaser and enjoyed delicious dark rum and tonics, and toasted the Schiefersteins.
We spent an hour or so watching the results of a big walleye tournament, then went to dinner. They were having a Sunday special of $.35 wings. We did not have them for dinner, but bought some to take with us for lunch tomorrow while we do the Welland.
At Sugarloaf Marina they always put us as far away as possible from the Marina Office. If you enlarge the little marina picture, you will see two tall masts in the furthest corner away - thats us! Tomorrow the Welland! We shove off at 7:00 AM.
Kerry is sooo cute in this picture - really concentrating on the flag. The rum drink sounds delicious! Happy sailing!
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