Cleveland

 

We had light winds out of the south on a beam reach that were sufficient for enough speed. Midmorning the wind died and stayed that way for a bit, so we motored. In early afternoon the wind picked up again, this time from the north for the opposite side beam reach. The afternoon wind was strong enough that we made decent speed all the way to Cleveland. There were no bugs today. We don't know why as conditions were pretty much the same. The difference being that we stayed close to shore. I'm wondering if the bugs came from the floating mats of seaweed that we had to sail through in the middle of Lake Erie.

One of many retired coal electric generation facilities we saw during our travels.

Cleveland coming into view.

Cleveland skyline.

I think this is the shipping channel that has Collision Bend that the ships go through with tugboat help. Last year we at at a brewery called Collision Bend Brewing Company where we watched a couple of ships go through the tight canal. See pictures in last year's Cleveland entry.

Lighthouse on one side of the entry to the harbor.

Lighthouse on the other side of the entry to the harbor.

We stayed behind the left-most angular building, which is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

In our slip behind the R&R HOF.

Plaque explaining the origin of Rock and Roll.


We were in desperate need of groceries, especially since we were taking on a passenger. We found this grocery store that had a wine and beer tasking room. I had a pilsner from Immigrant Son Brewery from Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland. This is also a decent American version of a European pilsner. We had dinner at a place called The Brothers. We had met the owner at The Old Prague Restaurant in Vermillion. It was a short Uber ride away. It was Jazz night and they had a brass orchestra that included 5 saxophones, 4 trombones, 4 trumpets, drums, a bass and a keyboard. Their music was excellent. They didn't have any local lake fish so I had blacken salmon that was good. The beers that they had were all ones that I have mentioned before.

The marina is very nice. It had the best showers of any we've been to. No Laundry though, which was a disappointment. The dock was also wide and non-skid. Some can be very narrow, wobbly and slippery metal. It was also right behind the R&R HOF. Like last year, we did not have a chance to go in.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Medina

Image
Today was much less adventurous as yesterday. We got to the demasting facility at Wardell's early and waited for him to open the shop. Masting went well as the bad weather held off. Our original mast cradle was too low to  allow for the dodger, the blue canopy, because we had lower bridges last year when we went to Oswego on Lake Ontario. This part of the Erie Canal allowed us to put the mast higher so we made some cradle mods while at the masting dock and put the dodge back up. It also allowed the mast to clear my head without ducking when passing underneath. We had a leisurely cruise down the Erie Canal. We tried to stop for lunch but when trying to dock at the side of the canal had difficulty because the points that we could tie off were too far apart so we missed out on visiting Lockport and we ate lunch on the boat. Otherwise it was uneventful on our way to Medina. There were several farms, mostly corn but other crops as well, on the way. There were also several residences. Th...
Read more

Tonawanda

Image
The threat of rain and thunderstorms got us going this morning. We took down the sails although it was a bit windy, it was dry. Removing the sails went quickly with three people. We started out to try to get to Tonawanda early in the hope of being demasted today. Without sails, motoring was our only option, but it would have been a decent sailing morning. Things went very bad went we missed the entrance to the Black Rock Canal that bypasses a bad part at the start of the Niagara River. We ended up going under the wrong part of the Peace Bridge. The next bridge was clearly too low for the mast and we turned to go back. But the current was so strong, we spent close to an hour going almost nowhere. Just before we were going to call for help, a US Coast Guard boat showed up and asked if we were OK. We said that we needed a tow and they obliged. It took them quite a while to pull us back to Lake Erie, close to a half hour. We then motored to the Black Rock Canal and went through a draw brid...
Read more

Frankfort day 2

Image
After checking the weather for the next day, we saw that the winds were going to be very high. We were pretty sure that we would not be able to sail the next day. As it turns out the forecast was correct. The wind and waves were very high. There was a small craft advisory all day. I'm not sure whether our boat is a small craft, but there was no advisory the first two days and there was some miserable sailing and motoring in the afternoons. When we went to the beach to check out the waves and get pictures, the wind blew the sand so hard that it hurt and embedded in your skin. The sand was blowing across the parking lot like snow snakes on the road in winter. It was a good call not to leave, but it puts us a day behind. You don't get to see all the waves, but you can see the splash on the break wall compared to the lighthouse. The flags at the VFW were all straight out. The water was calmer in the evening but still big splashes on the break wall. Nothing new on the marina or rest...
Read more