{"id":6664,"date":"2017-09-19T10:13:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T14:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2017-10-16T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T17:50:40","slug":"september-19-sarnia-to-goderich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=6664","title":{"rendered":"September 19 – Sarnia to Goderich"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOn Lake Huron – En Route To Goderich<\/p>\n

I left Bridgeview Marina in Sarnia at 7:00am this morning. No sunrise today as the sky is heavily overcast.<\/p>\n

My “climb up the hill” into Lake Huron was pretty much the same experience I had yesterday except that the boat steered a lot better – plus I met two freighters in the channel.<\/p>\n

I met one of them right under the Bluewater Bridge & would have loved to have gotten a photo but I was kinda busy at the helm. Maybe I’ll get a GoPro camera for next year. Better check with the Admiral on that first :).<\/p>\n

The lake is much calmer today. Still a bit lumpy, but not rough enough to slow me down or to motivate me to turn back again. Plus the forecast for the day shows the wind changing direction favorably & dropping in the afternoon so that helps.
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\nIt started to rain about an hour after I left Sarnia. Its not raining heavily & is coming straight down so that helps to flatten out the waves. This is when having a second steering station inside the cabin really pays off. I can stay warm & dry through bad weather spells.<\/p>\n

I still have lots of visibility & can see several miles in each direction. Plus I’m nowhere near the freighter shipping channel so I’m not likely to encounter other boats.<\/p>\n

The chartplotter shows that I now have about 6 hours & 39 nautical miles to go to reach Maitland Valley Marina in Goderich. With any luck I’ll be tied up on the dock by 4:00pm.<\/p>\n

The boat is scheduled to be hauled out of the water for winter storage on Friday morning so Catherine is coming to Goderich to pick me up this afternoon.
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\nOnce I got past the Bluewater Bridge I started to travel in a straight line for the next 50 nautical miles to take me to the marina’s entrance channel in Goderich. Thank goodness for autohelm! It would be a really long & tiring day without “Otto’s” help!<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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