Pictures From the Trip October 3, 2001 Last Cruising Update - Summary October 1, 2001 Cruising Update - From Annapolis September 26, 2001 Home Strech September 19, 2001 Last Of The Erie Canal September 15, 2001 Back on the Eastern Erie Canal September 12, 2001 Finishing the Western Erie Canal September 10, 2001 Lockport to Fairport September 7, 2001 Western Frontier of the Erie Canal September 6, 2001 Back in the Canal System September 4, 2001 Leaving The Great Lakes September 1, 2001 In our 7th State August 29, 2001 Ohio Has Libraries August 27, 2001 Vermilion, Ohio August 26, 2001 Fox Haven Marina August 22, 2001 In Put-in-Bay August 17, 2001 The End Of Lake Huron August 15, 2001 Down Lake Huron August 13, 2001 North Channel and Lake Huron August 3, 2001 Gore Bay August 1, 2001 Keel-Haulings July 31, 2001 Rocks Everywhere July 28, 2001 On To The North Channel July 17, 2001 Wouldn't Change A Thing July 13, 2001 Speed Limit July 9, 2001 Thousands of Islands July 5, 2001 Out Of New York July 3, 2001 Typical Day July 2, 2001 Cold Mornings July 1, 2001 Phoenix NY And Beyond June 26, 2001 Through The First Lock June 25, 2001 Up Around Manhattan June 15, 2001 Daily Routine June 12, 2001 Strolling The Vineyards June 11, 2001 Sag Harbor June 9, 2001 Block Island & Beer Can Music June 5, 2001 Lessons Learned June 1, 2001 The Tides Increasing May 25, 2001 Up The Coast Of New Jersy May 21, 2001 Getting To Know The Cruisers May 17, 2001 And So It Begins!

 August 29, 2001 

Our trip from Vermilion to Cleveland on Tuesday was good (By the way, for the boaters, the town docks at Verimilion were $1.25/foot). Although we had 2 - 3' waves, they were following seas so it wasn't bad at all. We got to Cleveland in 5 hours, just in time to pull up to Dick's Restaurant in The Flats for lunch. I had one of the best BBQ pork sandwiches I've ever eaten. Brian's fish wasn't bad either. Good place, even though the docks were so high that we had to put fenders on the flybridge!

We anchored inside of the Cleveland harbor breakwall (outside of the shipping channel) almost directly across from the new Brown's football stadium and the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. It was a beautiful view, especially at night. The anchorage was quiet, but that could have been due to the fact that there was quite a bit of rocking and rolling from tugs and other boats' wakes (not hard to believe we were the only boat anchored in the whole 5 mile harbor). Oh well, it calmed down after sundown.

Today we traveled 4 hours (~35 miles) to Fairport Harbor. Cleveland is having a big air show this weekend and while we were cruising this morning, a prop plane was fying just east of us, obviously practising. We had our own little airshow for about 15 minutes!

We are anchored in the Fairport Harbor harbor by a nice beach. While walking to the library we noticed quite a few local restaurants and taverns, a small grocery store, a laudromat, liquor store, and several other small-town shops. Seems like a nice town.

Next stop: Conneaut, OH. Then Erie/Presque Isle, Dunkirk, and Buffalo. We should be starting east on the Erie Canal early next week.

We are off to explore the river in the dinghy.

Jeri and Brian