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Peter -

How you manage to get those two young men to go to bed before the sun goes down is beyond me!

This makes my idea of a "curtain" on the shelter mission critical. I can burn a citronella candle on the console and then enter the boat enclosure and then hopefully give those flying hypodermic needles the slip on the way to bed!

I also have the cheesecloth strips. I believe Don followed that very same sage advice with "...otherwise, it will look like two blind guys had a knifefight in the morning."

That is an instance where the cabin of a Revenge/Conquest would be nice.

Dave - I know Jerry is following along to this thread. I think I mentioned it to Paul, but haven't heard from him in awhile. Perhaps I'll give them a call this weekend to check in. I'm pretty sure they'd be all over staying at marinas. In that area - there are generally two ports that have adequate facilities: Little Current and Killarney - and these aren't especially close together. I don't think the Birch island marina facilities are sizeable, although I could be wrong, since that is prime-time cottage country jump-off. I don't know if cottagers come up late and stay the night before running out to their cottage in the morning or not.

One other thing: re: connectivity. I was thinking about this today on my flight. Essentially, if you are leaving a loved one at home, they can keep in touch only via the modern day equivalent to smoke-signals. You could arrange for messages to be posted on the spider bay marina bulletin board in Little Current and then just promise her to check in every other day and return the call as necessary.

There may be a better way to get hold of you in an emergency (perhaps via VHF call from Spider Bay?) - but generally folks who go to this area don't want to be found while they're there! I'm giving work instructions to relay messages via Spider Bay marina, as I did last time.

Dave