July 29th Put-N-Bay to Lorain - day 31 of trip

We were up at 7am and forgo breakfast until we were underway. Tom did an engine check then started to get ready to release us from the mooring ball. You can see from the photos below the area was filled with boats of every shape and size. We were lucky to have a clear get away-no one in front of us.

We were able to sail for about half of the day, then as usual the wind faded away to less than 2 kts. Down came the sails and we started trusty Cool ( my new nickname for our engine) and continued on our way to Lorain Ohio. 

It was interesting trip on two counts - 

 1. Seeing the Cedar Point rides on the horizon - you realize how large they are. 

 2. We could not believe the distress calls to the Coast Guard from stranded boaters. In some cases boats were sinking, others colorful inflatable rafts were adrift. I give the radio operators maintaining their calm in all situations. 

I will make a note that I am cheating in some respects. I get curious about the places we go to and look them up - hope you don't mind that I add  the info in the blog.

At note on the Spitzer Marina - short handed, the young women at the fuel dock was doing double duty running to help people (us) get into their slips then running back to the fuel dock. They put us on a broken floating dock covered in bird (you know what) that stank. I finally when out and hosed off the worse of it. The only good thing was the showers and we put the air conditioner in and had a comfortable night. 

yep they put us right next to a water hazard - another boater told
us about the rocks - someone is smiling down on us because
we missed them going in and leaving. 

Lorain is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Black River, about 30 miles west of Cleveland

Ford Motor Company had the Lorain Assembly Plant in the city, mostly known for assembling the Ford Econoline (E-series) van, Ford Torino and Mercury Montego, and beginning in 1975 the Ford Thunderbird and Mercury Cougar (through 1997); the plant ceased all production on December 14, 2005 because the UAW and Ford management were unable to come to terms on a new contract. The sprawling United States Steel Mill, portions recently acquired by Republic Steel, stretch for nearly 3 miles on the city's south side. These mills have operated in the city since 1895 and continue to employ thousands of local residents. Though the blast furnaces were idled in late 2008, Republic announced in December 2011 that they would be building electric arc furnaces to once again make steel in Lorain.