June 19 and 20, 2011; Sunday and Monday

Second day at Geneva State Park, OH:  Finally; a day of rest.  We got up at 05:00 again and checked the weather, wind, and waves.  We did ponder a while, but decided it was too rough so Keith went back to bed and I stayed up to work on our itinerary and the blog.  It was good to get caught up.  After Keith got up for the second time (09:00!), we went for a walk into the little town next the the marina "Geneva-On-The-Lake"  It was nice and sunny but very windy and we could see huge white caps out on the lake.  We were glad we decided to say.

CO's comments:  We later learned that there were 5 foot + waves and all white caps; it is a good thing we stayed in port.

Geneva State Park Marina, Geneva, OH

6-19-2011
Red sky in the morning,
Sailors take warning

Lake Erie on 6-19-2011

Monday; Geneva, OH, to Cleveland, OH, Lakeside Yacht Club:  We were up at 05:00 again to check the weather.  It looked like the best day to travel until next Thursday or Friday so we went for it.  We had dense fog for the first 3 hours (that radar really came in handy) but about 09:00 the fog burned off and we had sunny skies.  Early in the morning we had large, rolling, waves but they also smoothed out and we had another beautiful day.  But, it was a good thing we got an early start because about 15:00 we saw huge thunder storms out on the lake and by 16:00 they were here at the marina.  Talked with West Marine and they will deliver our charts we ordered tomorrow along with some extra things that Keith needed.  I crashed this afternoon; must have slept 3 hours or so.  I really needed the rest.

N41 31.453
W81 39.919

6-20-2011 View from our slip
at Lakeside Yacht Club, Cleveland, OH

Slip at Lakeside Yacht Club

CO's comments:  In the harbor I knew it was foggy.   Once we left the breakwater, it was 25 yards visibility at the most.  Just like the old days flying IFR.  The radar picked up the fishing boats that were out there with no problem.  We had a fishing boat, 1/4 of a mile to our port, give a couple fog horn blast just to let us know he was there.  We answered and kept on going.

First of a kind built in Port Weller, ON

Only Fountain would design an
anchor to fit the boat.

48 foot Fountain with 3 Cummings engines;
70+ mph.  Bobbie won't let me have one (yet).