Bucking bronco
18 August 2017 | Buffalo
Cloudy and very windy
Well, the electrician never showed up. But Pat did. Hooray! We did get fuel and pump out in the morning. When we were going back to our wall tie up, the wind kicked in with a vengeance. Just trying to walk the boats forward was a struggle. The wind was blowing the boats off the land and trying to corral them and pull them back in was barely possible. I was behind Paradise Hunter, and being smaller and lighter, my boat was bouncing around like crazy. The marina folks took pity on us, as did Roger and Tari, and they moved us to the end of a dock that was open for the night and most of Saturday. My boat had wood chips on it from the wall and several spots of hull paint were rubbed off. A short video can be found here:
https://youtu.be/gTHsl-uyEzY
Tomorrow we go to Niagara Falls. Then return to Buffalo to take our boats to Tonawanda. Saturday afternoon we will do laundry. Sunday we start the canal.