Cheerios and Clevis Pins




What do cheerios and clevis pins have in common?  They are part of our current experience of stepping the mast.  We are in Buffalo, NY getting our mast, which we carried all thru the Erie Canal, reinstalled.  It's scary watching the mast hanging on a crane with a muscleman holding on for dear life.  With all this large and very heavy  equipment, success depends on a simple clevis pin.  Just enough to keep a massive peice of metal in place.  I find this fascinating. Conjures up the poem..For Want Of A Nail.

Whilst all this is happening, whafting through the air is the slightly distinct odor of toasting grain with a hint of vanilla. Turns out immediately opposite us in the channel is the General Mills/Gold Medal Plant.  We are smelling toasting cheerios.

We may, or may not, get underway into Lake Erie today, if we (that would be John) are able to get the boat ship shape for more open water.  Lake Erie is for all practical purposes, the ocean.   It's long and winds blowing down the lake can create some dicey waves.  You pick the days you venture out. Today it's nice and calm.

On to the next phase of our adventure.  Thank you New York for such a great experience.  And thank you all for prayers that we are safe.  We are!

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  1. TirebiterJune 21, 2019 at 8:12 PM

    When we were in Scotland, we drove past a Quaker Oats plant. Do weird seeing it there vs being in Cedar Rapids, IA.

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