Another beautiful weekend equals another beautiful boat ride. Since Andy is leaving (again) for Germany this Tuesday for three weeks, this was pretty much our last guaranteed summer weekend on the boat. While we sometimes get a late Indian summer, anything towards the end of September and into October is always a crap shoot. Besides smashing a finger between the spare tire holder and a falling spare tire, everything went well.
We launched the boat down at Sterling State Park and took a trip across the lake into Put-In-Bay. The lake was amazingly smooth. We cruised along at 55mph for the entire distnace. We didn’t want to push anything too hard since the trip out to the island is ~35 miles across some pretty big wide open water. In typically form, Maggie slept the entire was across. Once we got to the island, we did the standard tourist stuff on the island. Ate lunch at the “Boardwalk Restaurant” and took a ride up to the top of “Perry’s Monument”. The ride back in at the end of the day was just as nice as the ride out. The wind and waves built up just a touch once we surprisingly got about 2 or 3 miles from shore. I’m guessing they chopped up to about 2 feet.
Becki did a good job manning the dock lines. We kept Maggie in her car seat when we launched the boat and then left her (sleeping) in the cabin when we retrieved it. This was Becki’s first time out on the boat without anyone else to help her. We all concluded that it was a success.
