{"id":40,"date":"2021-09-28T21:19:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T21:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2024-02-18T18:55:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T18:55:32","slug":"oh-lake-huron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/28\/oh-lake-huron\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarnia, ON &#8211; Kincardine, ON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sarnia ON, Sarnia Bay Marina \u2013 Kincardine, ON, Kincardine Marina &#8211; Sept 28, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Window maybe\u2026..comfortable not even close.&nbsp; Winds were westerlies.&nbsp; Hitting us beam all day.&nbsp; Our plan was to do a full day to Tobermory, ON.&nbsp; We had no time to doddle at this point because the Captain had been set up for a pickup in The Soo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winds and waves were not fun.&nbsp; I call it the Ralph Factor.&nbsp; Today the Ralph Factor was a good and steady 7-8.&nbsp; I didn\u2019t see much as I stayed quietly on the couch waiting for \u201cwe\u2019re here\u201d command.&nbsp; Scott doesn\u2019t get seasick so he was fine but even he said it was not a good day.&nbsp; We only made it to Kincardine, ON.&nbsp; Tomorrow was to be a better travel day so we made arrangements at the quaint marina in Kincardine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has everything you need.&nbsp; Fuel is a bugger to get into if you have anything over 40 feet.&nbsp; There is no turn around room and the docks and slips are way too tight at the fuel dock.&nbsp; No fuel for us anyway as we did fill up in Sarnia after the storms.&nbsp; We were slipped into the T dock for the night and watched a beautiful sunset.&nbsp; Kincardine has some of the most picturesque sunsets you will ever see.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately we are now on a schedule which was something we did not want to do.&nbsp; This border shut down has decided our fate and we will roll with it but it doesn\u2019t mean we have to like it.&nbsp; So a quick overnight stay and an early morning we are headed to Tobermory, ON.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarnia ON, Sarnia Bay Marina \u2013 Kincardine, ON, Kincardine Marina &#8211; Sept 28, 2021 Window maybe\u2026..comfortable not even close.&nbsp; Winds were westerlies.&nbsp; Hitting us beam all day.&nbsp; Our plan was to do a full day to Tobermory, ON.&nbsp; We had no time to doddle at this point because the Captain had been set up for <a href='https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/28\/oh-lake-huron\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-loop-second","category-uncategorized","category-4-id","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/helioBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}