Day on the Cruise: 112
From: Grand River Marina, Fairport Harbor, OH
To: Lakeside Marina, Lorain, OH
Statute Miles: 54.7 SM
Time: 6.33 Hrs
Cumulative Miles: 2,508.2 SM
On Board: Susan, Chuck, Maggie, Trooper, Peanut
We are in Lorain, OH tonight, about 20 miles West of Cleveland. This puts us in Western Lake Erie!
First, some pics we took yesterday of the Grand River Marina where we stayed at Fairport Harbor, OH.
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| Blue Moon in a slip |
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| Looking to the West in the Marina |
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| Looking to the East. Lots of sailboats! |
Sunrise now is around 6:30 AM. We were off the dock at Fairport at 6:50 this morning. Out the Fairport inlet into Lake Erie and then a hard left turn toward Cleveland. Weather was nice, very cool. We were in jackets most of the day. Seas were calm, maybe a little "lumpy", but not bad. After we passed Cleveland, the Lake flattened out nicely.
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| Heading out of Grand River towards Lake Erie |
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| The Coast Guard Facility at Fairport |
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| The old, abandoned light house at the entrance to Fairport Harbor |
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| A view out the front door this morning |
It did not take long after getting out onto the Lake from Fairport to see Cleveland. It was shining in the morning sun, and the tall buildings looked bright as they reflected the sunlight. Very impressive. We watched Cleveland for a long time. It is a big city and stands out on the horizon, even though we were more than 9 miles offshore from the city out in Lake Erie.
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| The City of Cleveland shows up on the horizon |
As we got abeam of Cleveland, the sky got cloudy and the seas flattened. Susan mused that it was "eerie" on Lake Erie. The lighting and the weather conditions were an interesting sight to say the least. We proceeded for the rest of the day under heavy overcast sky's.
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| We are abeam of Cleveland, OH, about 9-10 miles off shore in Lake Erie |
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| Overcast skies moved in |
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| The weather turned eerie and ominous |
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| This is Cleveland, OH on "Eerie Lake Erie" |
At Avon Point, OH, we passed a huge OLD power plant with several tall smoke stacks. We started to see these stacks over 30 miles East of the site, and I used the stacks, as tiny as they were on the horizon, as a guide to steer the course we had set for the day. These stacks gradually got bigger and bigger, and when we passed the power plant, we saw they were several hundred feet high! This plant looked shut down, and it has probably been replaced by the Nuclear Plant near Geneva, OH.
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| We started seeing this old power plant about 30 miles before we came up on it |
Our course from outside the inlet at Fairport to the entrance to the inlet at Lorain was about 51 miles. We did a point to point route that was straight as a string. We arrived at the Lorain Inlet at about 12:55. This inlet has several big jetties set in a diagonal pattern. We could see the arrangement on the charts,and we steered around the outside jetty and through the entrance to the Black River at Lorain. Our marina was right at the entrance to the river. We can see the Lake over the breakwater at the marina.
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| The seas flattened out after Cleveland |
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| Lighthouse at end of a jetty at entrance to the River at Lorain, OH |
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| Coming into the River at Lorain, OH through the jetties |
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| Another old, abandoned lighthouse on the West Jetty at Lorain, OH |
The marina gave us our slip assignment over the VHF radio. Before we docked, we topped off the fuel and got a pump out. This is a very large facility. We are at the end of a very long dock and it is a hike to get to shore and to any facilities.
We are watching the weather for tomorrow. Winds are supposed to be 10-20 knots, but from the South from the shore. Seas are 1-3 going down to less than 2. There is a chance of T-Storms later. We want to go about 40 miles Northwest up to South Bass Island in the Lake Erie Islands. Right now I think we will go maybe mid morning, but it will be a game time call. Stay tuned! We have two more cruising days to get off Lake Erie.
Thanks for Reading!
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