July 27, 2021, Monday, VYC
I had planned to leave for Lorain by 7:00 today but I noticed at 6:10 that it was light enough to start the undocking process. So I got up and at 'em and quickly got Kerry up and involved. We pulled out right at 6:30. Leaving the dock was a little tricky because of a cross wind and narrow channel. We used our marriage savers to communicate and had a perfect un-docking maneuver. The trip to Parker Marine in Lorain was very pleasant. We had a following sea with 1-2 foot waves and just putted along at about 8 knots. Because we had to go no wake in the Black River our overall speed for the 29 mile trip was 7.4 knots. We arrived at 10:30. Dick Parker was there to help us dock. Dick offered to drive us to Vermilion but once he said they were going to work on Annie right away we said we would be happy to just wait. Dick assigned Mark Thomas to the job. Mark is our favorite repair technician. He is so good and treats Annie like his own boat. It is no understatement to say he h...