We're Retired and Are on Our Way

Attention Mark Bennett: these people
can attest that we did leave.
Photo by Jeff Bacon.

We departed Dock of the Bay on Monday morning at 0900, August the oneth. I'm suprised we got off the dock after all the partying and saying good by.

Cameron (on the left) thinks anything
bigger than a car is a truck. That includes
boats. Janet and Bob expecting in Dec.

We make a great couple.

 Thank you Janet and Bob and Cameron, Amy and Bec and JP and Jan and Dave and Blue and Jeff and Sandy and Carla and Odessey and Loretta and Mary and Mike and George and Trudy, and all of our DOB friends, for the send off. Dock of the Bay has been a spectacular second home to us. We have made friends there that will be damned hard to equal.

Good bye good friends.

Our first stop was Battery Park to take on $81 of diessel (I nearly had a stroke), and unload 44 gallons of used beer and other unmentionables at the pump out. So at 1000 hours we departed for Vermillion. We sailed for about 3/4's of the trip and motored the last hour. Thank god because we went a little faster under motor and arrived at 1400, just five minutes before the mother of all storms popped up and blew like crazy - our first "oh shit" moment. And it was only day one!
Day two was very uneventful. We left Vermillion at 0830 with no wind and motored for six hours to Cleveland. Gawd, all that diessel.

Our first view of Cleveland.

We arrived in Cleveland at 1430, found our slip at Lakeside Yacht Club and are in the process of getting significantly shit faced because we are not going anywhere tomorrow. Bad weather predicted. Next stop will be Geneva on the Lake. Hope you are all well. We miss you all already.