Goderich to Grand Bend 0745 hours - under over-cast skies and in light winds on Friday, August 18, 2006, we powered out of Goderich's harbour (past the freighter beside us at the grain elevators, that we obviously didn't hear arrive). Our destination today is Grand Bend and we are anxious to naviage the piers there under calm conditions. We are familiar with how the waves can roll in to Grand Bend's shallow, narrow entrance way and have heard horror stories of boats touching bottom there in wave troughs. We arrived at 1130 hours, in calm water, and the harbour master put us on the north wall, almost all the way down to the bridge at Hwy. 21. Our depth sounder is reading 3'6" (rather swampy). Considering it is located 2' below our water-line and we draw 4'10", we're not floating by much. Our narrow, shallow, crowded, noisy anchorage is quite a change from the North Channel seclusion we left behind. We arrived in Grand Bend on our 45th day out and paid to dock for the first time. While in Grand Bend we met Keith Ruebsam, a fellow boater. While chatting, we discovered that Barry and Keith had grown up just 3 houses from each other on Westmount Crescent in London. Barry's mom, Alberta, can recall driving Keith to school with her son Terry. It truly is a small world. Keith and his wife boat out of Sarnia though their home is in Colorado. Now that's a commute. It helps that they're semi-retired.