And Sometimes Things Just Go Wrong...

How Todd and I spent most of our summer.

On June 8th, Todd and I were washing Ocean Breeze.  I was standing on the gunnel in the cockpit (the side of the boat at the end of the boat).  I wasn't watching what I was doing, took a step and ended up in mid-air.  The next thing I knew, I was laying on the cockpit floor looking up at Todd.  Not good!

The summer began...and ended in less than 10 days.  I tore my right rotator cuff along with the supraspinatus and bicep tendons.  I had surgery to repair all the damage the first of July and spent the rest of the summer in an immobilization sling and making friends with the Physical Therapy Department.

Day of surgery...July 11th, 2013.  I didn't see the boat for another 2 weeks.

We did get over to Put in Bay on South Bass Island while our son and daughter in law visited in August.  Ocean Breeze stayed at Bay Point and we took the Jet Express (fast ferry service).

Todd, David, Brigette and Paula Sue at the Northern Most Point (The Keys at Put in Bay, Ohio)

I was finally able to work the right arm pretty well, to we took Ocean Breeze to Put in Bay over Historic Weekend, September 5th through the 9th.

Ocean Breeze moored just off Gibraltar Island.

The HMS Denis Sullivan.

The Re-enactment area during Historic Weekend is huge.

Perry's Monument, a declaration of peace after the bloody battle of Lake Erie during the Battle of 1812.

We heard musket and cannon blasts all weekend.

Sunsets were quiet and beautiful.

  We've tried to come up with a way to get Ocean Breeze to Cape Coral this fall.  The timing is too short to get her prepared mechanically and my shoulder is still healing.  So we've scuttled the idea for this year.

Our plan is to do Great Loop #2 beginning the end of July 2014.  Until then, I will try to blog intermittantly through our fall, winter and spring adventures.