Monroe, Michigan and the Regatta

The sunrise in Sandusky was beautiful this morning. 

We couldn’t get in our first choice marina in Monroe, MI, so we are at the Monroe Boat Club marina. We should have known this would be an interesting Marina, when they told Fred over the phone that they were putting us on the “banana dock”.  Fred found this marina at a little out of the way channel in Booles Harbor. It turns out this was a good thing, as this boat club is holding their annual Regatta this weekend. (In New England a regatta is a series of races). Fred asked when the races are and there aren’t any. In Michigan, a regatta is a party!  It’s their biggest money-maker and there’s walleye for dinner. They expect to serve 3,000 people 😮. There will be DJ’s and a band tonight and tomorrow. We just extended our stay to 2 nights so we can join in the fun.  And, since we’re here for their Regatta, our dockage is free. So far, Michigan people are great. 

Update: we attended the walleye fish fry and it was delicious. The DJ was playing and a live band will end the evening. Tomorrow morning is a heart attack breakfast and smoked chicken for lunch and dinner. One of the club members was showing us pictures of all the walleye they caught. The club members went out and caught all the walleye for tonight. And then 6 guys used electric knives to fillet the fish. And they had to change the knife blades halfway through due to filleting so many fish.  

You can see Taurus behind the cooking tent.

For those of you on the nuclear power plant tour, this is the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant near Toledo, Ohio.

Comments

  1. BrickJuly 24, 2021 at 8:22 AM

    “Heart attack breakfast” - just we need to have as we get older!

    Nonetheless I have loved to participate in the regatta as you described it.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Taurus Great LoopJuly 24, 2021 at 10:31 AM

      Agreed! And once in a blue moon doesn’t hurt anyone. Biscuits with sausage gravy, sausages, bacon, pancakes, eggs, assorted pastries, oh, and cut fruit. It’s been a hopping place with the club members putting on the current event as others put together the next event. And we had groceries delivered this morning too. We have found it wise to take advantage of two nights in port and restock.

      Delete
  2. UnknownJuly 25, 2021 at 1:28 PM

    Hi, Lisa and I have been keeping track of you -- envious of your adventures. We have been getting some welcome rain. Lisa is going to Montana this next week to visit a friend. Fun keeping in touch, Aunt Ruth

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Taurus Great LoopJuly 25, 2021 at 2:02 PM

      So glad to hear you connected with us! It has been an interesting trip with interesting people. No boredom here!
      Keep in touch, Deb

      Delete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Melbourne, Florida - Our Winter Home

Image
We made it to Melbourne, FL, Taurus’s home for the next three and a half months!  Melbourne is also where our son lives, so we are going to get some good time in seeing him this winter. So great!!  We saw him after work and for dinner today.  It’s been too long. We need Covid-19 to be done please! We left Fort Pierce this morning and had an uneventful cruise.  We saw an old favorite - a tug pushing a barge! We saw some more electric wires crossing the bay for those in the barrier islands. Once we were settled in our new marina, Fred and I took a walk to the Eau Gallie Art District (EGAD). We walked through an older residential neighborhood. There were Aloe Vera plants that are humongous! Aloe Vera plants in the neighborhood near our marina Plus there were cactus There were a couple of historic signs And at the end of the night - Christmas lights!
Read more

Georgetown, SC and Rice!

Image
We spent today in Georgetown, because for the next few days there won’t be much to go see.  We went to the Rice Museum where the  Brown’s Ferry Vessel remnants are located.  It sank in the 18th century in Black River carrying 25 tons of bricks made on a plantation. Artifacts, including green glass English wine bottles, oars, millstones, iron pots, a straight razor and smoking pipes made of gourds.  The items enabled historians to date the time of its sinking to between 1730 and 1740. This period is about 50 years earlier than previous American shipbuilding discoveries. Model of Brown’s Ferry Vessel  The ribs are made from cypress trees  by the water  that were plentiful here in South Carolina.  The planks on the sides were hewn by ax and are all the same thickness.  I’m not sure how you do that with an ax.  Remnants of Brown's Ferry Vessel We also learned about rice growing in South Carolina.  The planters bought 40,000 acres of lan...
Read more