{"id":6934,"date":"2018-07-03T07:37:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T11:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2018-12-21T16:47:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T21:47:58","slug":"june-29-port-dover-to-port-colborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=6934","title":{"rendered":"June 29 – Port Dover to Port Colborne"},"content":{"rendered":"

42\u00b052\u203232\u2033 N 79\u00b015\u203220\u2033 W<\/p>\n

I was up at 5:30am to prepare for an early departure to Port Colborne. It is a 6 hour passage from Port Dover.<\/p>\n

The weather forecast was favorable with lots of sun & very light winds. The beautiful sunrise was certainly encouraging.<\/p>\n

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I pulled away from the dock at 6:15am and was greeted by a very different version of Lake Erie – compared to my experience approaching Port Dove the day before. The water was perfectly flat with a gentle breeze on my stern. This would be a great day for what was likely to be my my last passage on Lake Erie for quite some time.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately this pleasantry was not meant to last. About 20 minutes after I left the dock I had a few thousand unwanted passengers join me for the voyage.<\/p>\n

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The boat was covered with tiny flys & they especially liked being on the flybridge!<\/p>\n

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Plus, huge clouds of them were following the boat & looking for a place to land. It was impossible for me to outrun them so my only choice was to retreat to the inside steering station until the invasion was over.<\/p>\n

It was a real shame to have to go inside on such a beautiful day. Fortunately after about an hour the breeze picked up enough to clear the forward deck of bugs so I loaded up with sunscreen & bug spray & sat on a lawn chair on the bow of the boat.<\/p>\n

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I approached Port Colborne about 1:30pm. The large grain elevators at the entrance to the marina & the Welland Canal made my destination easy to spot from a fair distance away.<\/p>\n

It was not very long before I was tied up at Sugarloaf Marina. The clouds of bugs stayed on the lake but I had a big cleanup job ahead of me because of all the dead ones still on the boat.<\/p>\n

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Once I was securely tied up I had a big G&T to cool down & to build up my motivation for the cleanup job that was facing me. Catherine & Emily we\u2019re supposed to arrive in a few hours so I didn\u2019t have too much time to waste! They would have no interest in boarding the boat in it\u2019s current condition.<\/p>\n

They arrived from London shortly after 7:00pm. After stowing their belongings aboard we went in search of a restaurant for a late dinner. We found a nice place on a street beside the canal & I pointed out the \u201cwaiting\u201d dock for pleasure boats that were ready to enter the Welland Canal. There was a beautiful motor yacht tied up on the dock apparently in the cue to enter the canal.<\/p>\n

Time for bed & an early start in the morning.<\/p>\n

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

42\u00b052\u203232\u2033 N 79\u00b015\u203220\u2033 W I was up at 5:30am to prepare for an early departure to Port Colborne. It is a 6 hour passage from Port Dover. The weather forecast was favorable with lots of sun & very light winds. The beautiful sunrise was certainly encouraging. I pulled away from the dock at 6:15am and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-rideau-cruise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ppZJ-1NQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8242,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions\/8242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}