Thursday - September 9, 2010

Today was the day we were supposed to arrive in Chicago, but unfortunately the weather prevented that. It has now died down and our friends on Windsong, Lazy Dolphin, Serendipity, and Q's End have departed. We are waiting to get another VHF radio installed today. While waiting we watched some boats being hauled for the winter including Idyll Time. The owner's are putting it up for the winter and then driving down to Tennessee to pick up their 18 foot centre consol, bringing it back up here and then Continuing the Loop. They will be camping along the way. Here they store the boats in huge heated sheds for the winter rather than outside. The marina, takes all the old oil from the boats and rather than dump it, uses it to heat these sheds. By the way they are not really sheds but solid buildings probably the length of three or four football fields. Idyll Time is a 48 Foot Krogan and it will fit in a little corner of the shed.

While we were waiting for the radio installation, Brenda and I took the dinghy across the Channel to Grand Haven for lunch. Brenda then decided to get her hair cut which took two hours. I went for a walk around town and out along the boardwalk to lighthouse during that two hours. When we got back to the Marina, the work was done and I preped the boat for our departure tomorrow. Weather looks good for the next 3 or 4 days so we should make Chicago. Hope our cruising permit is there.