Lyn is back in Toronto, staying with a friend. Now she can work on her next phase - getting her knee repaired. Some of the provisions on Kristtaney were removed and dispersed to my boat and Paradise Hunter. Tomorrow afternoon, Roger and Keith will sail Kristtaney back to Florida. The plan is to go nonstop, about 38 hours. The forecast is for favorable east winds to carry them home. Here’s hoping they have a great farewell sail.

Tomorrow morning, Bruce, Chris and Jerry will come over from nearby Rose Island on Sea Hawk. Jerry will help Tari bring Paradise Hunter to Rose Island, where the rest of us will anchor until Roger flies back to Nassau. So if anyone was wondering why it was we met up with these other boats and ended up sailing together, now you know.

Not much going on today. Some provisioning, washing the boat down, etc. It is good to rinse the salt off the boat after a passage. With the strong east wind, the marina has been choppy. It is on the side of the channel, and the channel is a bit open to the east. Add the current and you get a bouncy slip. A quiet marina on the Great Lakes this is not. Add the standard fixed dock with two foot tides, and you get a fun time just getting on and off the boat. High freeboard boats do better. Mine has a low freeboard, so there is a lot of jumping down to the boat after you pull the boat closer to the dock, or climbing up onto the dock to get off. At least the boat is not rolling and creaking. Fixed docks with tides and current are the norm on this trip. Your lines better have some slack at high tide, or else they’ll be trying to hold the boat out of the water at low tide.

My brother asked how our solar was doing. Mine is doing fine. I am charged up every day, and overnight my battery discharges about 13% before the sun comes up. I have 425 watts of solar. During the day I can charge my devices and run my watermaker. I move the boom to one side or the other so that no panels are being shaded. I am careful at night to minimize my demands on the battery. Roger has 535 watts of solar. His panels are angled down slightly, so depending on which way he is pointed toward the sun, he either does well, or else loses some efficiency because they are shaded. They help a lot, but he still needs his generator, just not as long some days. On a good day, the solar will fully charge his batteries.