August, 2023 - Jeanne and Steve's Sailing Adventure

Jeanne and Steve’s Sailing Adventure all done.

On June 23rd three of us (Jeanne, Alan and me) left Waukegan for a 52 day adventure for Jeanne and me. We saw a lot of things, met a lot of people, saw a lot of boats, especially Catalina sail boats. We went up the Wisconsin coast into Green Bay across the lake to Michigan, […]

Day 52 – Home Sweet Home Port

We are back in our home slip. The weather prediction was for increasingly nasty weather as the day and week progressed. After sharing dinner with Jill, Jay and Mary (Jeanne wasn’t feeling well) at La Josie (quite good), Jeanne and I decided to wake up at 2:00 am and head north to avoid the lousy [

Day 52 – It’s Not Supposed To End Like This

It’s our last day! It was supposed to be a remembrance stay in Burnham. This was to celebrate when Jeanne and I first started sailing together. That didn’t happen. Then a glorious August day with sun and wind as we sailed along the shore by Touhy Beach and the old hood. Instead the weather is [&

Day 51 – New Buffalo to Burnham

So we are at in final two days of our Adventure (:-). So setting out from New Buffalo around 9:00. Winds were good, but we had to motor sail, both sails up, speed 7.4 knots. Got over in a hurry. the first 4 hours were really nice. Sun, wind and enjoyment. Then the wind got […]

Day 50 – Lets Go Swimming

On day 50 (2 more days, fingers crossed) we hung out with family and friends and went swimming at a private beach near New Buffalo. It was at the parents of Anna who is a friend of Cathy’s. First we hung out on the boat in the marina with Barb and Rick and then went […]

Day 49/50 – Hanging with family and friends

We are in New Buffalo for 3 days. It will be nice to not go anywhere. We have met up with Cathy and Mary, who took the train, Rafael, Susana and Myles, who drove and Suzy, Rick and Barb who drove as well. Cathy has a friend with a house in New Buffalo, where they […]

Day 48 – Did I say South Haven to St. Joe. Meant South Haven to New Buffalo 🦬

So the winds on Friday didn’t look good for going from St. Joe to New Buffalo, so pushed on past St Joe and went on to New Buffalo. This meant instead of a 5 hour day it was a 9 hour day. On top of it the wind died and there were gentle rollers that […]

Day 48 South Haven to St. Joe.

Well we found out. If the wind is out of the west “if the boat is rockin, don’t bother knocking”. About 5:00 woke up and the boat was definitely rocking. Jeanne was uncomfortable just laying in bed. Oh well. So we just got under way. The harbor mouth was really way and I really had […]

Day 47 – Saugatuck to South Haven

well it was not an especially nice day out on the water. Tried to sail but the wind was on our nose, out of the Southwest and wavy. The wAyer temperature was 59 so cold. We took the Bimini top in which let a little sun and warmth in. All in all not such a […]

Day 46 – Saugatuck

Interesting attribute of Saugatuck is it is on the Kalamazoo River and it is way upstream. If took almost 30 minutes to get to Singapore Yacht club. So you ask why Singapore? Turns out that a bunch of New York Speculators built a town called Singapore in the 1830s when lumber was king. It was [&hell