Jeanne and Steve's Sailing Adventure - Sailing around Lake Michigan

End of Day 10

We visited with our friends the Laurells, who live in the most amazing house literally at the top of Door County at Gil’s rock. Anyone who has been up there they can see the ferry to Washington island from their living room. We got a good look at one of our more difficult areas to […]

Day 10 – Sister Bay (updated with pictures)

Well we are staying in Sister Bay for 5 days. Why? I did this in case we ran into weather and had to stay over in a port. Well we didn’t have to stay over anywhere and we hit all of our reservations. So far so good! So now what do we do for 5 […]

End of Day 9

Well after our glorious swim, we proceeded on through some narrow passages, lots of islands It was 0 feet to the west of here. Lots of big time houses And islands Now are docked in Sister Bay, listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd. Why is it called Sister Bay? Sister Bay, which was also called Big Sister [&he

Day 9 – Underway

We had just left Egg Harbor, it was hot. Upon checking the water temperature noticed it was 74 degrees, we jumped in, sans swimsuits. A little skinny dipping, it felt awesome! Jeanne brought her soap with her and washed up. No pictures. There are some serious homes on the shores here and plenty of i

Day 9 – Departing Egg Harbor to Sister Bay

We are are leaving Egg Harbor today, getting a slow start. Going to fuel up and pump out (empty the waste tank). I’m getting old so everything is a little sore in the morning, especially my hands. Oh well. Sister Bay is 2 1/2 hours north of here. So we have time. But! No wind, […]

Day 8

There won’t be much to report today. We are going to stay over in Egg Harbor for Friday, depart on Saturday for Sister Bay, then Menominee, Cedar River, Washington Island and then cross to Leland Michigan (more on that later). Today Jeanne wants to do a deep cleaning then we will go into town and

End of Day 7

Well this was a short day and there were some high points and some low points. So we went through the bridges, that was a leaning experience on how to get them opened and to keep the boat in one place. We went through the rest of the Sturgeon Bay Canal / Bay. That was […]

Day 7

The measure of a good vacation is whether you have lost track of what day it is. Had to count on my fingers. It’s Thursday 7/29/23 right? We are in Cross Point Marina in Sturgeon Bay. Very high end, lots of people from the Chicago area, few sailboats lots of motor yachts. I do mean […]

End of day 6

Well we have landed at Cross Point Marina around 3:30. Started out trying to fix our main, ended with our new main being delivered and it fits. In between we finally had both sails up, making a really good Speed Over Ground of 6.9 knots. We took down the main sail on the water which […]

Heading for “The Cut”

6/28/23 – We departed Kewaunee. We intended to get going early which translated to 11:00. We have developed a slight issue with our furling main. It was difficult to let out this morning. After we got the sail out. The bottom is all the way out, but the top is not. It is close, but […]