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Went up to the boat today
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:15:16 -0600, "KLC Lewis"
wrote: Karin, Beautiful country. I can't believe how densely populated it is. Pleasantly zooming around on Google Earth clearly shows the glaciated landscape. Are harbours such as Franfort free anchoring or do you have to pay? I refer to the outer harbour as there seem to be many piles in the inner one. I had dreamed, many years ago of sailing up the Hudson/Eire canal and down the Chicago Sanitary canal to the Bay of Mexico. I doubt now that I'll do it but it is still tempting and I might still head north after leaving Trinidad. Florida is only two weeks away. The trouble with cruising is that you take much longer than you planned as there are so many interesting places to side track to and who wants to rush things. cheers Peter Summers make up for it. We have such wonderful cruising grounds to visit -- several islands are within half a day's sail, along with several nice little anchorages and ports. I can sail over to Sturgeon Bay and transit the canal in about 4-5 hours, then sail overnight to the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, where there are some fantastic little towns to visit like Leland and Frankfort. Haven't done the "Crossing the Lake" sail yet, but it's in my plans for this year, Insh'Allah. Sailing north in Green Bay takes me to Washington Island -- wonderful Scandanavian architecture, three harbors but two of them are very thin water and one is very deep. Detroit Harbor on the southern end of Washington Island is the best of the three (others are Jackson Harbor -- a tiny little lagoon -- and Washington Harbor, which is 80 feet deep and rocky) but the channel into the anchorage is very narrow and is bounded by sand/mud at about 2-3 feet depth. Further north takes us into either Little Bay de Noc to the west (Escanaba and Gladstone, Michigan) or Big Bay de Noc further east. BBdN has a super place to visit -- Fayette, Michigan -- which is an old abandoned steel mill town which has been turned into a state park. The harbor, "Snailshell Harbor," is gorgeous. Not huge, but it doesn't get a whole lot of traffic except around July 4th week. Can't wait to get sailing again! :-) |
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