The last two days of the cruise we spend at anchor in the lagoon at Aquatic Park Sailing Club on Toronto's Leslie Street Spit, a terrific anchorage only one hour (at 18 knots) from Frenchman's Bay. Click on any image in the blog for a larger view.
Back at the Fairport Yacht Club dock in Frenchman's Bay, we sum up the cruise in numbers of note:
Length of cruise - 15 days 14 nights
Distance - 131.34 nautical miles
Shortest day - 0.3 nautical miles
Longest day - 28.6 nautical miles
Engine hours - 16 to 17 hours, including charging time
Average speed - 8.8 knots
Cruising speed - 18.0 knots
Number of ports of call - 8, as follows:
Anchorages - 1 (free)
Mooring wall - 1 (free, should have been 50 cents per foot)
Yacht clubs - 6
- Island Yacht Club: first night free, additional night at $1.50 per foot
- Harbour City Yacht Club: first night free, additional night at $1.50 per foot, ice cubes $2.50
- Queen City Yacht Club: given first night free (Fairport Yacht Club not listed with reciprocal privileges)
- Dalhousie Yacht Club: first night free, additional night at 50 cents per foot, ice cubes $2.50, pump-out $20.00
- Fifty Point Yacht Club: first night free, additional night at $1.57 per foot, ice cubes $2.80, blocks $4.00
- Port Credit Yacht Club: two free nights, ice cubes or blocks $2.00
Average daily cost - $46.70 per day including fuel (!)
Bacardi Rum Mojitos - 1 bottle
Bacardi Orange Breezers - 3 mini-bottles
Red Wine - 7 litres
Beer - 4.5 litres
V8 juice - 24 cans
Fruit punch - 12 TetraPaks
Water - 18 litres plus 20 500-ml bottles
Steaks - 4
Sausages - 10
Hamsteak - 1
Salmon cakes - 4
Salmon fillets - 4
Couscous - 2
Whole wheat linguine - 1
Eggs - 2-1/2 dozen
Bacon - 6 slices
Cheese - 5 (St. Albert, Bright, Danish Blue, Vermont Ayr & Thornloe Casey)
Pork liver pate - 1
Chorizo Iberico sausage - 1
Baba ghanouj - 1 tub
Peanut butter - just a bit of one jar
Sour cream - 1 tub
Smoked oysters - 3 cans
Potato chips - 2 bags
Multi-grain crackers - 1/2 box
Granola bars - 6
Trail mix - 1 bag
Bread - 2 loaves light rye
Butter - 1 pound
Breakfast cereals - 1 box Kashi Crunch
Memories - more than we can say.
Click here to visit the recap of a 2008 Golden Horseshoe Cruise when the ports of call were almost entirely different. See the links at the lower right of the blog under the heading Golden Horseshoe 2008.
Incidentally, the photo of At Last! that adorns our TomCat Tales banner at the top of the blog was shot by the Admiral from Carousel Cafe at Centreville Amusement Park in the Toronto Islands.
It's hard to believe that in late September, on the final morning of our cruise, we are able to enjoy French toast with a side of pork sausage sitting in the cockpit of At Last! wearing only shorts and T-shirts.
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