PENETANG TO INDIAN BAY

DAY 55 THURS. JULY 28, 2011
DEP. BEACON BAY MARINA 12:25, PENETANG, ONT ARR. INDIAN HARBOR ANCH.3:15
CLOUDY, HUMID, NO SUN, WIND CALM.
D. 16sn\m/907.2

After a morning charting session we departed Beacon Bay to anchor in Indian Harbor where we met Sharon & Ken from Dockers Inn and Jean and Brian Orr from Spirit of Whitby. The anchorages was nice with 4 other boats there, unfortunately it apparently also served as some sort of short cut off the main channel as we had a lot of small runabouts zipping thru creating a lot of small wakes and noise. While there I wanted to make sure the generator raw water strainer was clean, so I turned off the thru hull, cleaned the strainer, and forgot to open the seacock. The inevitable happened. Pat started the generator for tea and didn’t check the genset outflow and we burned up the raw water pump impeller. I told Pat to never start the genset without checking for water flow, and proceeded to replace the impeller. All OK, another lesson learned! We had Happy Hour aboard Dockers Inn and made plans to travel to Port Rauson Bay together the next day. After dark the boat traffic died down and we spent a comfortable night at anchor. Brian called in the AM and  
needed some 110v electric to recharge his dead batteries, so we rafted up to help him.

BOULDERS EVERYWHERE