Happy birthday Rome!
We got a late start today and as usual were sailing to windward towards Thessalon, 46° 15’.28N 83° 32’.89W, our last port in Canada before entering the USA. After a few hours however, the wind died and then came in from the NE and we found ourselves on a broad reach. This was the first time we were not sailing to windward in 19 days. Whatever happened to the old adage that “gentlemen do not sail upwind”? The reach was very pleasant but short lived and we ended up motoring. On the way we saw a fishing boat with a gazillion seagulls flying around and over it. Let’s hope they weren’t all pooping on the catch. We arrived at Thessalon and contemplated docking rather than anchoring, since Ron’s shoulder has been giving him trouble recently. Decided to anchor after all, but after 3 failed attempts at getting the anchor to hold, ended up in the marina. So we had the worst of all worlds – Ron lowered and raised the anchor 3 times, and we ended up paying for a dock anyway, and got there too late to get the access code for the showers! Today’s log: 35nm, season total: 523.4
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