Sunday 080715– in De Tour Harbor, Michigan
Weather/Sea Sunny,
wind 5 to 10, temp 60 to 70
Captain - John C. Kwak crew Chuck Livingston
We are back in De Tour Village Harbor for 2 days to catch up
on rest and boating business. Our return trips from Grand Marais and White Fish
Point were very pleasant and faster than the trip into lake Superior. We sailed
down wind from Grand Marais at about 8.4
mph with motor a 1600rpm. Then sailed without motor, on Jib and Main and got 5 mph
on 10 mph wind. The wind is very fickle
here and changes constantly. The wind dropped to zero and we rolled up the jib
and dropped the main and motored to White Fish Point a total 7.9 hour run while
the up trip took 9.1hr.
The run from White Fish Point to Sault ST Marie took only
6.5hr while the up trip took 9 hours. It helps to go with the current rather
than against.There was no wind so we motored all the way. DUTCHESS went through
the Canadian Lock again in record time with 3 other boats in the lock. Motored
right into the open lock, the water was lowered to Lake Huron level and we
motored out. We wanted to do the large Mc Arthur Lock but it had three huge
freighters backed up. The Sault ST Marie marina is very near the lock. In fact
that is the main tourist attraction here, go see the locks and see the huge
over 1000’ lake freighters pass thru. The
next day we traveled down the St. Marie River to De Tour Village Marina. Our
next stop will be Mackinaw City Marina and then to Harbor Springs MI. I have a diesel mechanic coming there on
Monday to change the main seal on the Cummins diesel which is leaking oil.
While the Velvet Drive transmission is out of the boat I will have them change
the seals because it is leaking oil also. Here is the reality of boating Bring
On Another Thousand that is what BOAT
stands for.
My SIMRAD NSS8 chart plotter has been misbehaving. It has a
touch screen, which freezes repeatedly during a run and then goes black but
when we push the ON button it comes right back???. Also sometimes it recognizes
that we have radar and sometimes it does not. The radar shows on the same
screen. So after carefully explaining
all this to SIMRAD they are sending a new Chart Plotter to Harbor Springs at a
cost of only $370.00 because the old one is out of its 6 month warranty. The
problem came up within the 6 months but I thought it was my installation and
calibration of the unit. SIMRAD said I should have called tech support at the
first sign of trouble and started a record then it would be under warranty.
Lesson learned!
Good blog! Learn by doing may seem hard but the lessons really stick with you.
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