June, 2023 - Jeanne and Steve's Sailing Adventure

End of day two

Well today we sailed, motor sailed and motored between Milwaukee and Port Washington. Wind shifted to the Southeast and eventually to the South. At that point we changed to sailing wing and wing. See Bruce Springsteen song “The sails were set wing and wing”. Arrived Port Washington at 4:45. Pret

End of day one

6/23/23 – Well we arrived at McKinley Marina at 7:50. Fueled up and emptied the head. Mostly motor sailed. Now we are going to celebrate with a rum and tonic and summer fest is going on. Tomorrow Port Washington Also going to get our new mainsail tomorrow. Dinner chicken shawarma

Well we have departed

Well we made our first mistake. We went too far to the Southeast under sail, because it was fun and we were trying to deal with the wind on our nose from the Northeast. Lost two hours. Giddyup. Jeanne made Quinoa Salad that her sister Suzy the Michelin Star Chef made for us. We are […]

The final week before departure

(6/18/23) Well we are in the final countdown to our departure and the weather is looking good. Considering what we saw last Thursday that is a relief. Here is what the longer distance marine forecast looks like. East winds would be a dream, especially 10-15 knots. As everyone knows Lake Michigan can

Course for the adventure (6/16)

For those of your following from home, here is our course

Date Format – Error

As much as I try to correct the date format from European to US, I just cant get it to change. Must be a bug. So to decode the date just swap the first two fields. So 9/6/2023 is really 6/9/2023. We are just going to have to pretend that we are cultured and use […]

Jeanne and Steve take a two-month trip around Lake Michigan

Well, now that I have retired after 30 years at the CME, Jeanne and I will be moving to Seattle in the fall. So, we decided to sail around Lake Michigan and visit all the ports that we have known and heard about. This is going to be a two-month trip leaving on June 23rd […]

Jeanne’s Cousin is going to join us

Alan is joining us in Waukegan and helping us for the first leg of the trip. He will be sailing with us until we get to Manitowoc Wisconsin.

Our first Stop will be McKinley Harbor in Milwaukee

It should take 7-8 hours as the Rum (rhumb) line flies.