The Beckoning Delivery Day 05 - Grand Bend

 Our next destination:

We were all up at 6:30am, had a quick breakfast of yogurt and berries and off to the showers cause we could.  Ladies made some cold cut sandwiches for underway.

We left the dock at 7:10am.

Winds were again pretty much on the nose and light maybe 8 knots of breeze.
Motor sailed the entire way with just the main.

Pretty chill as we passed Point Clark, Goderich, and Bayfield 2-3 miles from shore.

As we got closer to Grand Bend, we could see why the area is called Bluewater:

Coming into Grand Bend, we saw lots of people on the beach

Parasailors

The lighthouse is the Grand Bend Yacht Club clubhouse.

Trip Odometer: 58.4 miles
Moving Avg: 6.0
Moving Time: 09:43:00

We were greeted by Kevin in his dingy coming up the channel:

We stopped at the marina fuel dock for fuel up, pump out, and fill the water tanks.
We used 104L of diesel from Tobermory.

GBYC would have difficulty with a 40ft boat (and davits), so we moored across the river:

Moored where the arrow is:

The girls got their clothes packed, and we dingied up the river to GBYC.

We had some drinks, while Kevin prepared a yummy BBQ turkey breast.

Mike and Mark arrived shortly after with my truck.

The eight of us sailors were all members of the Newcastle Yacht Club before 2010.
It is neat that all of us have stayed in touch all this time.

A storm cloud came in, so we had to take cover while we ate.

This picture was taken from the top of the lighthouse:

What a great time we all had catching up!

Funny sign in washroom:

But alas it was time to go.

The girls loaded up the truck and off they went:

We loaded up the dingy with Mike/Mark's stuff and said our good byes to our most excellent hosts:

Camera shot from Kevin:

... with The Beckoning behind (time was 8:42pm)

We spent a couple of minutes organizing before getting underway.

Leaving the harbour just after sunset at 09:00:

Four guys on a sailboat, going day/night back to Whitby.

Winds were light, maybe 5 knots and on the nose, so were just motored to Sarnia

Trip Odometer: 35.40 miles
Moving Average: 5.4 knots
Moving Time: 06:36:00
Max Speed: 8.1 knots

We pulled into Sarnia Yacht Club.
Very dark coming in and we were docked by 3:30am.

The only casualty was we lost one of our fenders during the motor.

EVERYONE crashed for a couple of hours until first light.