Wednesday, June 18th
It started out clear and sunny as we left Harrisville, but with 15 knot winds out of the NNW, we knew it would be slow going, so we planned to travel a shorter distance. We would have liked to go to Cheboygan at the northern tip of southern Michigan, so that we could be in Lake Michigan the following day. However, on the charts it looked like all the Cheboygan marinas are up-river from a bridge which doesn’t open after 6 PM, and it looked like we couldn’t get there until after 7 PM. Since the marinas are few and far between in that part of NE Michigan, we had decided to make a much shorter day of it. Around noon, the Nordic Tug which we had met in Harrisville passed us (yes, they are faster, but they burn three times as much fuel). I radioed to ask him to have drinks and snacks ready when we got there, and he said he would, but wanted to know where “there” is. I told him where we were planning to spend the night, and he reported back that he planned to go to Cheboygan. He said there is a marina on the river before you get to the draw bridge………so we changed plans and plotted a course for Cheboygan. We arrived about 7 PM and the drinks were waiting for us.
