N – 46° 24.809’
W – 086° 39.173’
Marquette, Michigan
Today was a great day to cruise. (Picture on left is leaving Munising) The weather was pleasant and the seas were flat. We located a sunken 150 long wooden hull schooner - The Bermuda - in 15 feet of water. We floated across her a few times looking straight down at her as she is sitting flat on the bottom in an upright position. Her deck is 12 feet below the surface and you can see her in great detail with her hatches open. She sank sometime in the mid 1880’s and is intact with the exception of her mast and rigging. There are lots of ships on the bottom of Lake Superior all with a story to tell.
The last hour out the weather looked threatening, but the cloud bank that was building produced nothing! (Picture below is arriving in Marquette) We are now moored in a very pleasant harbor close to the down town area. This harbor holds 100 boats and it’s almost full! Tomorrow we will rent a car and tour this section of Michigan. Most everything in this region is somehow connected with mining of one type or another.
I have tried for one week to purchase two sets of spark plug wires for the boat - with no luck. Will try to find them on line and have them shipped to a port that we’ll visit sometime in the near future. With all of the boats here you would think there wouldn’t be a problem but that’s not the case!
