Weather

As predicted weather front is moving in with rain for next hour or two. No lightning in forecast nor in the sky! Wind is picking up.

Temperature

Water 20C and Air 17C and at 1hr Marilyn is having her first feed. These are powdered nutrients Maxim and Perpeteum along with occasional Boost and coffee. Stroke is strong and steady about 63 per minute.

Spot Tracker

If you are following spot tracker you should know that it is attached to our lead boat about 50 to 100 meters ahead of Marilyn. Also select 24hr view to see the path of all the way points.

Marilyn the Elder

Big shout out to Marilyn Bell! Thank you for your warm greetings that I read to Marilyn the younger as we were driving to the beach for the start!

The start

At 7:16 am Marilyn left beautiful sand beach on South Western shore of Lake Nipissing near French River as we planned.

Zooming across Lake Nipissing

we're on our way to the start. The rain has stopped and its fairly calm. All systems go! Marilyn signing out.

Getting ready for the swim tomorrow

Here is the SPOT tracker link https://maps.findmespot.com/s/6QSG It isn't going to start transmitting until we turn it on at the beginning of the swim tomorrow sometime around 6 or 6:30 a.m. The new software automatically does "live" picture which is only the current location, in other words, just one dot. If you want to see my whole course, you have to click on the 24 hour history view. We are busy getting our equipment all ready and sorted for our 5 am drive to the marina. It's a beautiful partly sunny morning here in North Bay but we have a 60% chance of thinder later this afternoon. Tomorrow will start drizzly but calm. The rain should end by noon and the sun come out. It will be a bit windier but the wind will be exactly behind my back. Hopefully they will be nice surfing waves. Water temp is holding at 20deg C. Ait starts at 13, peaks at 22 and ends at 15 C.