Sunday turned out nice and on wandering the docks we met Destiny Calls - a CS27 who did a similar trip a few years ago and has a fun web site about it. We were really impressed when they mentioned loading 26 cases of beer on a CS27 before leaving Florida for the Bahamas (where the beer is expensive). How, you might ask could a CS27, which is 27feet long, hold 27 cases of beer? We now know. It was great fun talking to them about their adventures.

Later we decided to go on a dinghy adventure. One nice thing with our new dinghy and motor is that it planes quite easily and allows us to travel at un-sailboat like speeds (i.e. gets us somewhere quickly) and venture into not-sailboat friendly water depths. On this adventure, we went off to the Black Creek Cheese Factory which is a few miles from the marina and up a creek in which the water colour changes to - guess what - black! Our arrival was at the same time as a vintage car rally showing up. All the cars were pre 1916 and really well restored. Many of the drivers and passengers were in vintage costumes. Of course we had forgotton our camera. We were able to pick up some 4 year old cheddar (which is excellent) and the makings for dinner - a very worthwhile trip.

Tuesday saw us heading off for Cobourg to get ready for the next part of our adventure. The winds were predicted to be light to moderate in a favourable direction - well not quite. We did a little motoring, then sailing, then motoring and got into Cobourg about 9:30 in the evening. This was a 14 hour trip for us which is on the long side for a day. It is interesting talking to power boaters about distances and times. To us the Lake is big as it takes a long time to go from one spot to another, to a powerboater it is small as this trip would have been 3 to 4 hours.

We planned to use Cobourg as our base for going South. Not only does it have a great downtown within shopping distance, but also we have great friends there to visit. We took a weekly rate to do all those necessary things like laundry, grocery shopping and seeing our kids Alex, Jeff and Caitilin on the weekend. Our friends Bob and Sue cooked us a gourmet dinner on Thursday - their place is the best restaurant in Cobourg - and were great hosts helping us with the provisioning and letting us use their computer.

I managed to get the weatherfax through the Ham radio going, although our little barometer which predicts the weather seems to be more accurate than the weatherman. Who wants to know about more rain and chance of thunderstorms on the way anyway? (we have had a rainy summer in contrast to BC).