Two Good Things

Dining with our cruising friends from "Irish Lady Too"

….happened in the past two days.  First, we were finally able to meet up with our best cruising buddies from earlier this summer, Admiral Susan and Captain Kurt, from “Irish Lady Too”.  We originally met them way back at the beginning of the Erie Canal in Waterford NY in June and traveled with them for about a month as far as the Thousand Island area and Kingston Ontario.  We split up at that point and headed different ways, but monitored each other’s blog to see where we both were and what each of us was doing.  They ended up bringing their boat into Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin, about 30 miles south of here, to lay up for the winter.  They rented a car and drove up to Sister Bay to break bread with us, and to share some “adult beverages”.  It was really great seeing them again, renewing friendships, and telling each other one lie, er I mean sea story, after another.

Our other good event was completing the drive train alignment with the new prop shaft, and then taking the boat out for a sea trial today.  With a minor glitch, the sea trial went well and we accepted the work performed on the boat.  That means that we will FINALLY say goodby to Sister Bay & point the bow south tomorrow morning.  We’ll try to make Chicago in about 5 travel days (and hopefully zero weather days) by making some long travel days.

So the blog will continue when we have something to write about, but for now, as they say on the Navy ships, “Make all necessary preparations for getting under way.”