Sunday 072515– in Cheboygan, Michigan
Weather/Sea Sunny
&Cloudy, little wind, 65 to 75
Captain - John C. Kwak crew Chuck Livingston
We arrived in Cheboygan County Marina on Thursday 07/22/15
from Roger City Marina a nice calm trip
of 25 miles, no wind and no sailing. This Marina charges $58.00 per day times
the three days that we will be here. It is on the Cheboygan River which with
locks reaches into the center of Michigan State. The Locks are small and the
bridges are low so no sail boats. Bought diesel here, all of 34 gallons at
$2.699 per, the best price yet. Diesel is now cheaper than Gasoline even on the
street, what happened?
Summer is getting to the North Country the days are sunny
and get warm in the afternoon.
Yesterday I reinstalled the engine hatch sound proofing
which had fallen down. I used the 3M contact cement again but this time screwed
some slats over the foam to hold it in place. This foam is heavy because it has
a layer of lead in it to absorb the noise. The engine is loud especially at
higher RPM. We usually run at 1800 rpm which gives us about 6.5 mph and wear
ear plugs. One negative effect of the hardtop is that the sound reverberates in
the cockpit and seems louder.
Changing crew today, Chucks’ friend Ross will take his place
for a week. Chuck is going back to Kalamazoo MI to take care of business; he’ll
be back in a week. From here we will go up the ST Mary’s River to Lake
Superior. Planning to stop in De Tour Village Marine and Sault St Mary Marina
then we go thru the Sault St Mary Locks with the huge lake freighters to White
Fish Bay. The locks will be the largest that I have been thru. There are the American
locks “POE LOCK” is 110’ wide by 1200’ long and “MC ARTHUR LOCK” is 80’ wide by 800’ long and
they are the main operational locks. There are 2 more that are closed and then
there are 2 Canadian locks which may be open or not. Only planning to do a few
stops in Lake Superior because of time and then go back thru the Locks and into
Lake Michigan.
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