Lake Ontario
After dawn, things got easier, as they often seem to with daylight. Several of the ropes thawed out and became easier to work with. The wind steadily increased to a Force 5 as we approached Toronto. The waves washed the salt (that I’d earlier spread on the deck to melt the snow) off the deck (but were not high enough to wash the salt off the pilothouse roof). Dropping the sails and motoring into Toronto harbor was straightforward. A cheerful harbor police officer asked me if I’d really come from Whitehorse (now that I’m in Canada, everyone knows where Whitehorse is (far north and inland, on a big river in the Yukon Territory), where I once lived and where the boat is registered. While preparing docklines, a boat which saw me singlehanding came out and offered to help with the docking. It is always nice to have help when docking.