Waking up at dawn has its advantages.\u00a0 We did get to see a blue moon that will not be back for several years.\u00a0 A second full moon in the month of July.<\/p>\n
Scott and I decided that a dawn departure was in order to beat those pesky SSW and W winds.\u00a0 At 5:00 am today we got up and were on our way, first south to get around the peninsula, and then west.\u00a0 Our first encounter with Lake Michigan was brisk westerlies that met us as soon as we left the secure harbour of Round Lake in Charlevois.\u00a0 We continued along a southwest path and past South Fox Island and North Manitou Island where 300 foot sand dunes were.\u00a0 No way were we stopping with 8-10 ft waves.\u00a0 Instead of driving at 28 mph we were down to 12 mph or lower.\u00a0 The waves were doable but coming from the west and then SW and then NW created what I refer to as the soup bowl.\u00a0 You know when you stir your soup one way and then the other and back again and then put in the cracker.\u00a0 Well, the cracker was us.\u00a0 Just trying to find our way to the other side.\u00a0 The trip across would be a little over an hour in good weather.\u00a0 It took us 6 hours.\u00a0 6 hours of pounding in and around and then around again.\u00a0 The weather stations, at least 3 we listened to, had different outcomes for the day.\u00a0 If we put them all together they were still wrong.\u00a0 They should have called us when they said they had 2 -4 foot waves at the buoy.\u00a0 More like 8-10 ft waves.\u00a0 Aiden slept through it all.<\/p>\n
We listened to the weather the entire way over hoping that we would hear better news.\u00a0 The weather was changing as much as we were rocking. By the time we were on the west side in Wisconsin there was a small craft warning.\u00a0 We didn’t care cause the waves were nothing compared to what we just did for 6 hours.\u00a0 We pushed Conductance up to 25 and headed south.\u00a0 Our goal was Sturgeon Bay, WI , which didn’t sit comfortably with me being we lost both props in Sturgeon Cove north of Little Current Ontario.\u00a0 Anyway, we got there on half a tank of gas so we continued at 25 mph to Manitowoc, WI\u00a0where we got the diesel fill up.\u00a0 We were thinking of staying but with Sheboygan, WI only an hour away and it was just after 3:00.<\/p>\n
We hit a time zone bump in the middle of Lake Michigan and gained an hour because of it.\u00a0 So we pushed on.\u00a0 After getting in for the night in Sheboygan, WI with a 12 hour day under our belt we decided that dinner out was in order.\u00a0 So we were off in Low Voltage to a “canal” off the harbour where the city has done a fantastic job of making the waterfront gorgeous.\u00a0 Shopping, restaurants, anything you want is there.\u00a0 We didn’t make it into the city but that is a short block away.\u00a0 Scott and Aiden took a walk after dinner and I’m here too tired to care.\u00a0 This marina offers everything, even a pool for those wishing to soak for awhile or spend a couple days here.\u00a0 One of the nicest marinas we have seen on this trip.<\/p>\n
It is our goal to make it just west of Chicago tomorrow so that we can spend a bit of Saturday there and part of Sunday cruising through the canals of Chicago on our first leg of the Illinois River heading south.<\/p>\n
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