Day 17 – Wednesday, June 9, 2010
N - 45° 22.608’
W - 084° 57.581’
“Mackinaw City”
We haven’t moved an inch out of our slip with the exception of bouncing around all night. The weather is getting worse with gale warnings in effect with winds 15 to 25 knots, gusting to 40 knots and waves predicted at 5 to 7 feet! The wind is out of the south east building a wall of water in front of it as it moves up Lake Huron and slams into the east end of the Upper Peninsula. With rain, light fog and a low dark and dreary overcast sky at present ---tomorrow actually may be good enough to move east up into the straights!
The weather is quiet at present so five of us just rotated John’s boat 180° around in his slip to keep his boat from bumping a structure on the dock with the anchor.
We had a minor problem with our water system this morning and I just finished repairing the water regulator on the outside of the boat in this miserable weather. This is not a good day to work outside even with foul weather gear on! Everything is now fixed and its time to warm up and dry out!
We won’t have much excitement today so will have B
arb attach a few pictures from the past few days that show off better boating days. The first is of the Mackinaw Bridge taken from the fort (above). The other photo is the icebreaker Mackinaw (bottom left) that was decommissioned in 2006 and on display next to the harbor that were staying in, and Skip and John at the fort.
N - 45° 22.608’
W - 084° 57.581’
“Mackinaw City”
We haven’t moved an inch out of our slip with the exception of bouncing around all night. The weather is getting worse with gale warnings in effect with winds 15 to 25 knots, gusting to 40 knots and waves predicted at 5 to 7 feet! The wind is out of the south east building a wall of water in front of it as it moves up Lake Huron and slams into the east end of the Upper Peninsula. With rain, light fog and a low dark and dreary overcast sky at present ---tomorrow actually may be good enough to move east up into the straights!The weather is quiet at present so five of us just rotated John’s boat 180° around in his slip to keep his boat from bumping a structure on the dock with the anchor.
We had a minor problem with our water system this morning and I just finished repairing the water regulator on the outside of the boat in this miserable weather. This is not a good day to work outside even with foul weather gear on! Everything is now fixed and its time to warm up and dry out!
We won’t have much excitement today so will have B
arb attach a few pictures from the past few days that show off better boating days. The first is of the Mackinaw Bridge taken from the fort (above). The other photo is the icebreaker Mackinaw (bottom left) that was decommissioned in 2006 and on display next to the harbor that were staying in, and Skip and John at the fort.
