Day Ten in New Buffalo

This blog will chronicle our (Pat and Patty Anderson's)

cruising adventures on the Great Loop!

DAY 150 - August 28, 2017

We were hoping today might be our last day in New Buffalo, but such is not to be! Had the parts arrived in the morning and the work been done in the afternoon, it might have been. However, Ed from New Buffalo Marine Services phoned in the afternoon to say that the parts had arrived, and we would be pulled out and towed to his yard tomorrow!

Not a lot of activity today! Patty did laundry and took a shower. I rode my bike to Harbor Country Marine Services in my search for the elusive Boeshield T-9.

I wanted to spray the pivot points on our new directors chairs with Boeshield T-9, as well as our folding bikes. Boeshield T-9 is a rust and corrosion preventative spray developed by the Boeing company for airplanes, and most West Coast marine supply stores carry it. Not so here. Sweetwater Marine Supply in downtown New Buffalo did not carry it and had never heard of it. Oselka Marine likewise did not know what it was. When I had gone to Harbor Country Marine yesterday, they were closed.

I am really glad that I persevered! When I went into Harbor Country Marine today and asked if they had Boeshield T-9, they likewise said they did not know what it was. But the guy said Yamaha had a product that did the same thing, and took me over to the right shelf. Guess what? The Yamaha product WAS Yamaha branded Boeshield T-9, and they had two cans of it. The gal said those two cans had been on the shelf for three years, so I naturally asked if she could give me a two-fer, and she said she would be delighted to get both cans off the shelf for the price of one! Chairs and bikes have been Boeshielded!

We also made our reservation for Wednesday night, assuming our work will be finished tomorrow, for Marina Shores at Dune Harbor in Portage, Indiana. This will leave us a very short run to Chicago, where we have reservations for Thursday, Friday and Saturday at DuSable Marine in the heart of downtown Chicago! We have a hotel reservation for Friday night, September 1st, our fiftieth wedding anniversary, at The Blacktone! Every president from Taft through Carter has stayed there, and Kennedy learned of the Cuban missile crisis while staying there! Not cheap, but we are worth it!

We also got our tickets for the Second City Comedy Club! We will need to Uber there and back, but this is something we HAVE to do while in Chicago, along with Chicago deep dish pizza!

That left us the issue of what to do with Baxter while we are at The Blackstone. We could have brought Baxter to the Blackstone for a mere $75. But we did not want to have to deal with feeding him, walking him in the concrete canyons, and dealing with whatever might happen when we were out! I will only say that Pet Care Plus will do the job, very nicely, for only slightly more than it will cost us to stay at the Blackstone, including a grooming that Baxter severely needs. Baxter has a full Washington State veterinary certificate, but Pet Care Plus requires a dog flu shot plus a negative fecal exam, despite the fact that our vet wrote them a letter that the Trifexis Baxter takes monthly should eliminate the need for the negative fecal exam. But no, Pet Care Plus was rigid on those points. The boarding, the grooming, the vet bill for the flu shot and the fecal test, plus the "pet taxi" charge to the marina and back added up very quickly. But we are worth it, we deserve a pet free anniversary! 

Ed will meet us tomorrow morning at the New Buffalo City Boat Ramp to pull us out and repair our wounded rub rails at his boatyard! We are anxious to get the heck out of here and head on to the next phase of Daydream's Great Loop!