Sunday June 30: Midland - south end of Georgian Bay

We arrived at the Midland town docks around noon on Thursday and will be here until Tuesday.

This is a great place to be - nice small city with just about everything we might need.

A plus? Peter and Cheryl live a short 20 minutes from the dock! We've managed to have dinner with them for the last couple of nights - it's always great to see them again :-)

Euchre? 1 to 1 so far!

There are two basic challenges of spending time traveling on this smaller boat: the ability to carry only 30 gallons of fresh water (trawler holds 250 gallons) and managing the energy use (i.e. battery power).

To solve the water problem we'll use a trick from the houseboats we used to rent on the Trent: draw water off of the engine as it circulates to keep the engine cool thus producing hot water! Add cold water from a thru hull fitting and unlimited fresh (but not drinking) water for dishes and showers.

The challenge was to run a line from the bathroom through the bilge. Good use of the tape measure. After drilling a hole in the bathroom cupboard, we managed to snake the tape measure down through the bilge.

Tape the hose to the tape measure, pull it back and the result? The water hose we needed to provide water to the shower.

Plus we'll run another line to the front of the boat so Steve has a fresh water wash down for the anchor as it usually comes up with mud and/or seaweed. Double score :-)



Steve continues to work on the teak - using varnish remover and then sanding. Focus today was the door.

After working on it much of the day, it was time to apply the cetol finish. That was my job.

It's going to look SO nice when it's finished!














One nice addition that required no work at all (other than a ride to the hardware store) was the addition of 4 wine glasses. Somehow the 3 we had got broken so I thought I was lucky to find these 4 at the great sale price of $10 for the set. Now we're ready for guests!!

The harbor was visited the last few days with Canadian soldiers - or fish flies as they are called up here. They were all over everything!

These bugs would always make an appearance at East 55th St Marina in Cleveland about this time of the year as well.

Fun for a day or two but beyond that? Just a nuisance!

Tomorrow is Canada Day (like our 4th of July) so we'll go to the parade with Peter and Cheryl and just celebrate being in Canada :-)