{"id":6673,"date":"2017-09-19T23:17:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T03:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2017-09-20T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T12:24:23","slug":"september-19-back-home-in-goderich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=6673","title":{"rendered":"September 19 – Back “Home” in Goderich"},"content":{"rendered":"

43\u00b044’51.6″N 81\u00b043’05.6″W
\nSept 19 – Maitland Valley Marina<\/p>\n

I arrived at the marina at 4:00pm. The trip from Sarnia to Goderich was approximately 58 nautical miles & it took 9 hours.<\/p>\n

The first hour out of Sarnia was very slow going because of the current but once I was a few miles beyond the mouth of the St. Clair River my speed went from 2 to 7 knots. That’s not very fast for most power boaters but it was a major jump for a little single engine trawler!<\/p>\n

It started to rain about 9:00am but it was not heavy & was coming straight down so it helped to flatten out the waves. That made my ride a lot more comfortable – even if I was confined to the inside helm.<\/p>\n

The trip to Goderich was very straightforward. I set the autohelm on a direct course to the marina entrance & then didn’t have to make any course adjustments for the next 6 1\/2 hours! During that entire time I didn’t see another boat.<\/p>\n

The rain was intermittent so every hour or so I went up to the flybridge to take in the fresh air & enjoy the solitude.<\/p>\n

Even in the rain I had good visibility & could see for several miles all around me. By 2:00 I started to get glimpses of the huge salt storage building in Goderich Harbour but as you can see in the photo below, the sky was very low & overcast & the shoreline is barely visible in the distance. By this time the lake had also flattened out like a millpond.
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\nAt 3:45 I was finally approaching Goderich Harbour & began to navigate towards the channel to the marina
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\nCatherine & her Mom drove up to Goderich to take me home. But first we celebrated our reunion by going out for dinner at a local restaurant across the road from the Town Beach. We finished our meal just in time to enjoy another beautiful Lake Huron sunset.
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\nEven though it was not part of my original plan for this year, I enjoyed my impromptu voyage from Port Stanley to Goderich. It brought back a lot of memories for me of my trip on Ananda – in the other direction – in 2010. My first real adventure on a boat.<\/p>\n

I’ll go back to Goderich on Friday to have the boat hauled out of the water & set up on jack stands for winter storage. It will be a bit of a sad day but I’m ready for a rest & I’m sure the boat is too.<\/p>\n

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

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