Day 258, Friday March 7th - A very blustery day

Day 258, Friday March 7^th

Windy last night but we are well protected.  We are making lots of electricity with the wind generator.  Took the rain collection tarp down as it was noisy with the wind.

Due to high winds during the day we choose to hike vs. snorkel as we can keep track of approaching squalls better and pick up our emails.  The winds continued to build during the morning so even the hiking trip got nixed as it would have been a wet ride with the dinghy and a rough landing.  There are also squalls forecasted for the day so prudence is the better part of valor.  With our hiking trip cancelled we decide to try Slow Waltz's trick of hoisting the IPad to the top of the mast to pickup emails.  We do that by placing the IPad into a bag, tying that to the main halyard and hoisting it up with a tag line.  It works so we have 15 mins of reading emails.

Dawson bringing down the IPad

Dawson preparing coconut for appetizer 

Julie does her French and then we do some cleaning/maintenance on the boat.  Mid afternoon we have a bucket make a break for it over the side so we both jump in the dinghy to halt its escape.  After the bucket pick-up we decide to head over and visit a boated name Prosperi.  Prosperi is a Bayfield 32 that we had corresponded with via email on the Erie Canal.  The owners are Jake and Sarah from Kingston Ontario.  They had originally planned on joining the Salty Dawg rally but due to time constraints opted to do the ICW down.  They have been following our blog so knew a fair bit about our travels.  They have been buddy boating with a boat out of Halifax by the name of Beaujolais, owners Mike and Therma.  We have a great visit on their boat and follow it up with an invite to both Prosperi and Beaujolais to join us on Jazzebele for sundowners

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Finally 4:30 arrives and our guests start to arrive for sundowners.  It was an excellent evening with many topics to discuss as we learn about one another’s adventures.  The whole time we all keep our eye on the

Mike, Sarah, Jake, Dawson and Therma

weather.  By 7:00 it is time for to head to our respective boats and consider dinner.  In our case we have a bowl of bean salad as we had both partaken in the appetisers.   We both spend the evening reading are our off to bed for 9.

Cheers

Dawson and Julie