For back to work Monday, we decided to sail home for a couple of days to get some things done, then we would return to the boat for the remainder of our vacation.
I wrote for a long while in the early morning to the sounds of the rowers training in the bay on a perfect summer day. These guys were incredible – there were six racing boats, one lean and muscled young man in each, and they sprinted back and forth, rowing fast and precise, causing hardly a noise as their boats sliced through the waters. Ana came out to join me, but by the then the rowers had finished, so she instead took some lovely photos of showoff birds sitting on our lifelines.
We left the club and began motoring across the lake with the wind directly in our face. I checked the weather and saw that a huge system of thunderstorms had developed and were speeding towards the lake so we decided to play it safe and pulled into the Etobicoke Yacht Club, west of Toronto. This is another top class, fancy yacht club, but it was very quiet. The rain soon came and the downpour was torrential, and we found out later that many city streets and buildings had been flooded, including Magnus’s college where the roof fell in on several classes and they closed the building until further notice. Strangely, there was little wind and not a lot of lightning, so we could have probably made it safely to Newport through it, but we were in no big rush and didn’t want to take any unnecessary chances. We worked on some boat jobs as the rain poured down, but it started to break around 3:30 so we put on our rain gear and went for a walk around the local area but there was very little of interest.
By 5pm the skies had turned blue and we continued along motoring towards Newport, now with zero wind and a completely flat lake. We had a lovely ride back and were happy we had waited out the storm.
We made it back to Newport by 8:45, got the boat cleaned up and all of our stuff loaded into the van and by 10:30 were back home.
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