8-30 Grosse Pointe Yacht Club
30 August 2015
Barbara
8-30 Grosse Pointe Yacht Club: OOPS, I say, OOPS. We goofed today. We called yesterday, making a reservation and confirming that we received reciprocal (free) transient docking. First of all, we had the wrong GPS coordinates. We ended up three miles South of where we needed to be. That added an hour to our travel time. Then, when we got here, we find out that "reciprocal" means we have the privilege of docking here. Nothing is free. The slip cost us $95.00, then they charged us $5.00 for electric. That's $100.00 for the night. We were flabbergasted. That's the most expensive slip we have paid this summer. We were tired, it was 5pm, and bad weather threatened. We paid the $100.00 and grumbled about it. We took a tour after dinner. The grounds were exquisite and the building was quite impressive. Our ride down the St. Clair River today was very bumpy. It was Sunday and there were a ton of boaters out. That translates to a lot of wakes that we were traveling through. That means a very choppy ride. We also saw quite a few freighters today. We saw more freighters today than we saw all summer. Of course one of them passed us in the narrowest part of the river on a blind bend. Bob was having heart failure. He likes to give those big freighters lots of space. The pic today is the Grosse Isle Yacht Club building.