172 miles in three days down the Illinois river proved to be exiting, tiring, scenic, challenging, and luckily safe. I agreed to take Val home since she just about had enough, so we are on our way back right now, the long way. See you in 47 weeks. After getting a late 11 […]
Illinois River and the Locks from Chicago to Peoria Read More »
Chicago, what a town. On Friday Aug. 30th, we were scheduled to go to Portage Indiana but we decided to make an 81 mile run straight to DuSable Harbor in Chicago. We had to tack back and forth for 4 hours across 2-3′ seas but the waves were subsiding and it was a nice
South Haven is a great little town but it is not a good place to stay in the marina if there is a westerly wind. We had to extend our three day stay to five days due to the weather on lake Michigan. The westerly winds and swells kept us rocking all day and
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Tuesday the 20th, we pulled into Singapore Yacht Club for 5 nights in Saugatuck and it was a lot of fun for us . The first day we settled in and took a bus ride to the grocery store in Douglas. The second day we took the 1857 Chain Ferry across the river and
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Since we started on July 27, 2019, I checked our stats to see how we are doing. These stats will be very different when we get into the river systems and have to travel at no wake speeds. We were fortunate to find most days on the great lakes to be very favorable and
“Fish Town”, Leland Michigan, was a great stop. We would go back by land or sea to this unique town of boaters and fisherman. There were 6 looping boats in Leland and we met 4 of them. Leland was a 51 mile run from Traverse city and after Leland we traveled another 68 miles
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Ah, Traverse City, where I once shook President Gerald Fords hand at the annual Cherry Festival parade as a kid. If I was commissioned to build a marina, I would copy this one. The Harbor Master gave us a slip at “A” Dock #19 close to the club house with a great view. We spent
The quaint little town of Suttons Bay is what you would expect from a northern Michigan little town. The marina was clean but a little outdated. We had very good weather coming in at 10:01 am on Saturday, Aug 10th for a 34 mile run from Northwest Marine Yacht Club in Charlevoix. We had a
Suttons Bay, MI. The west arm of Grand Traverse Bay Read More »
On Sunday, August 4, we went to a 9:30 mass at the local Catholic church on Beaver Island and at 10:58 AM, we made way to Charlevoix . It was a sunny day with smooth seas and calm winds. The 33 mile trip took 1h36m at a cruising speed of 31.5 mph. Charlevoix City
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We made our first major Left turn into lake Michigan on a beautiful calm day Thursday August 1st, to Beaver Island. The loop is a counter clockwise route made up of many left turns with multiple side trips. Our next major left turn will be into Chicago and down the Illinois river around September,
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