Day 17, Tuesday July 9th

Day 17 July 9^th – Watching our son on TV in a Bar

Awoke to another beautiful morning, we had anchored only 5 miles north west of Little Current as we had to be in port and on the internet for Ross’s race at 11:15.  Ross was running in the finals for the world university games.  We tied up to our “usual spot” on the wall at Little Current and made our way up to the Anchor Inn.  Our plan was to dally over breakfast while watching the race.  Just after setting up our computer and ordering breakfast Bruce O’Hare, the owner of the Inn came over.  His wife had told him of our plans to watch Ross, so he offered up the use of the big screen tv on the bar side of the Inn.  This was a much appreciated offer which we immediately accepted.

Julie watching Ross race on the big screen

It was very exciting to watch Ross on the big screen and was neat to reflect back on all the races we had watched.  From the 1^st race out in Falconbridge (small community in Sudbury) where Ross 1^st showed his talent to now watching him run in Kazan, Russia, with us standing in bar in Little Current.  It was a good race with Ross taking 9^th and his fellow Canadian Jeremy Rae taking the silver.  We are very proud of the boy, although his communication skills must improve as we have not heard from him as of this posting.  From Kazan he is off to Helsinki, then Sweden and finally Belgium as he is staying to train and race.  He will be back in Canada August 6^th.

Calm waters of South Benjamin's

We leave Little Current after the race and head to the South Benjamins.  Winds are predicted to be relatively strong (25 knots from the West and North West) so we are thinking that the Gut on the South Benjamins would be good, we were kind of right.  We arrive to find 4 other boats anchored in the bay with all crews up on the rocks enjoying the evening.  Once we are confident the anchor is set we head over to meet our new neighbors.  Two of the boats are out of Midland and the other 2 out of Michigan with the boats being kept on Lake St. Clair.  It is an excellent evening; during the conversation it comes out that the skipper of Irish Wake is a singer songwriter, Greg Miles,  when he was not working in GM Engineering office.  Greg even enjoy his 15 secs of fame after posting his song “I didn’t quit my day job, it quite me”, this was during the layoff in the car industries in 2009.  His posting was seen by media with him appearing on 20/20.  He is now fully retired having retired 2 weeks ago.  We convince him (was not hard) to hold a concert that evening at the back of his boat.  Around 8 o’clock the concert begins with Greg playing in the cockpit and us in our dingy tied to the back.  It was as one of the other boaters said reputably – Awesome.

The concert is over at dark with all of heading back to our boats.   The wind has started to pickup, from the south west, not the best for us, we let out some more chain and head to bed.  We have a good anchor and all chain so we are very confident on our not dragging during the night. 

Cheers

 Dawson and Julie