July, 2023 - Jeanne and Steve's Sailing Adventure

Day 24 – Into Lake Huron

Today we are going deeper into Lake Huron. Our destination is Detour Marina, which everyone says is a nice location. Once again motor sailing with the wind behind us. Speed 6.5 knots. It is so awesome to be with the whole family. This part of the trip is a totally new experience for me. New [&hellip

Day 23 – Anne Marie and Seamus join us

Well someone asked what happened to the post for for yesterday (7/16/23 Dion’s Birthday, today is mine, tomorrow is Danny’s). So yesterday, we stayed over in Mackinaw City (yes it is spelled right). We went the the Pancake Chef for brunch. It was yummy, though the potato pancakes tasted like has

Day 22 – into the Straits of Mackinac

We chose to round close to the abandon light house. Instead of the Grey’s reef passage. This cut off at least an hour off our trip. Jeanne was cool as a cucumber, but I was schvitzing. Or it could be the Shpilkes. Either way I was eyes on the depth gauge for a good 1 […]

Day 22 – Heading into the Straits of Mackinac

We spent a great day in Petoskey. Fixed some stuff, walked through town and had a nice meal (and suds) at Tap 30. Now it is time to move on. Heading for St. Ignace. This entails heading up to an area of many shoals. Most of them are deep enough for our 4 1/2 foot […]

Day 20 Landed in Petoskey (waiting for the northern lights)

After a 7 hour motor sail which was quite fun. We had another interesting interaction with a motor boat captain. He raced us to the mouth of the harbor when he should have let us go first. We had already been talking to the Marina, so they raced in and asked for his slip assignment. […]

Day 20 – Heading to Petosky

After hanging out in Leland for a day, which was quite nice. We are heading to Petosky. We are going to pass right by Charlevoix where there were no slips available ever. Motor sailing again but both sails are up. Speed is 6.4 knots. Wind out of the Northwest 8.5 knots and it is quite […]

Day 19 – Hanging Out in Leland

After the 9 hour crossing from Washington Island, we weren’t ready to take on a 7 hour trip to Petosky right away. So we decided to stay over a day in Leland. Our good friends Dion and Jamie, came down from Petosky to see us. First we had lunch at The Cove. Of course we […]

Day 18 – Landed in Leland

We finished our first crossing. As usual the wind shifted and we had to go back to motor sailing. We landed at 6:00 Eastern time. So 10 hour crossing. To quote our neighbor “the seas were quite lumpy.” It was pretty cool to go by the South and North Manitou Islands and through the Manitou [&hell

Day 18 – Got signal

We covered 48 nautical miles, two hours under sail. The seas were very confused (out of two or more directions) . We just passed North Manitou Island and are 14 nm from Leland. The waves are much smaller, maybe one foot. Along with that do us the wind, Came within 3 miles of a freighter. […]

Day 18 – the crossing

We are making our crossing to Leland. Favorable winds out of the Northwest. 10 – 15 knots. 1 – 3 foot waves. Got the main up, jib soon. It was a rocking evening literally. we have both sails up, engine off. Speed 6.2 knots, suns out, wind out of the Northwest. Winds 11-15 knots. Leland [