We leave Irondequoit very early (6am) and make our way west. The 15 knots winds soon stop and we are left motoring. As a cold front is forecasted for the next day, we decide to take advantage of the fair weather to make our way to Toronto...only 80 miles to go!
Anyhow, this was not the best of passages: we had no wind for 8 hours (contrary to the weather forecast), with a overheating engine (because of a broken impeller…) and with an automatic pilot on strike…But this was not all: when the wind came up, it did with 15 -20 knots from the south west and we found ourselves unable to keep tracking to Toronto. Then the big thunderclouds towering over the cities of Toronto and Hamilton for the last couple of hours decided to move our way and we had squalls and thunderstorms creating 5 to 6 feet waves accompanied by heavy winds and forcing us to head more and more away from Toronto! When the whole thing blew over, it was 11pm and we could finally resume our course towards our destination…and entered Toronto harbour around 2am. Ah! That beer tasted good wth leftover sandwiches! A feast barely disturbed by the overpowering smell of the cormorans inhabited islands.
So good that you cannot smell this photo!! Just too many cormorans breed in the region, destroying all vegetation!
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