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

Day 28 – checked into the Grand Hotel

Today is our Daughter Anne Marie’s birthday. As a treat we are staying at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. Quite elegant. To walk around after 6:30 there is a dress code. Jackets, ties, nice shoes. We brought all that along. here are some pictures of the hotel. Also I am going to include some [

Day 28 – On Mackinac Island

First question, Mackinaw or Mackinac. The Native Americans first named it Mitchimakinak. The French came along and in the style of the French Language named it (?), Mackinac. After the war of 1812, the British conquered the island and the area and renamed it Mackinaw according to their thoughts abou

Day 27 – Thar she blows

We can see the Mackinac Bridge 1:00 7/19/23. Be at the Marina around 3:30.

Day 27 – Passing Les Chenaux Islands

Making good time. Lake Huron is pretty calm at the moment. Closed up the Bimini top to get everyone some sun (warmer). Glad we are not going into the Les Chenaux Islands.As you can see it is definitely obvious where the entrance is.

Day 27 – What a day, day 26 was

So we started out thinking we were going to go through Les Chenaux islands. Then! Waterspouts, a boat catches fire in Lake Huron , we didn’t see it, but we hear it. Seven souls, four dogs, people in the water (65 degrees). So we decided to stay in deTour for another day. Good call. But […]

Day 25 – Staying over in deTour.

Looks like a lot of bad stuff going on in Northern Lake Huron. So we are changing our plans on going to Hessel. Sitting here “Riding the Storm Out”. Which is actually a song about the Rocky Mountains. We almost left but we were a bit hesitant and guess it was a good call so […]

Day 25 – Stuck in DeTour Marina, heading to Hessel

It’s raining here in deTour harbor in the UP. We are waiting out an area of Red / Yellow to see how it develops. But we may need to head out in the rain . Oh well. Our next destination is Hessel Marina. If the weather holds out our plan is to go through the […]

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 […]