Some of you may remember earlier this year when Jim entered one of the pictures he took on our cruise to the North Channel of Lake Huron last summer in Cruising World’s annual photo contest. The editors of the magazine picked their top 10 photos out of all of...
Articles for August 2015
Man Overboard!
Don’t worry Mom, no one really went overboard! We were on our way from Cleveland to Geneva motor sailing in about 15 knots of wind from behind with two to four foot waves left over from strong winds of the previous 24 hours. It was pretty rock and rolly,...
We Found our First Mermaid!
O.K…..So maybe we didn’t exactly find a mermaid, but a mermaid definitely found us! After a beautiful day of sailing from Lorain, Ohio to Whiskey Island in Cleveland, Ohio we got a message from some friends asking if we’d like some company. Of course we would! We love seeing...
Saying Good-Bye to the Lake Erie Islands
Other than leaving our two boys behind in Michigan, one of the hardest things about leaving our typical western Lake Erie cruising grounds is going to be not being able to spend time at the Lake Erie Islands. For the past several years we’ve spent as many weekends as...