Thursday, July 25, 2013

Sorry about this late post, time got away from us last evening.

We began the journey on our shakedown cruise at 6:40 am, Jenny and Eliot surprised us by stopping by to see us off. Check out the pictures of our departure on Jenny’s face book page, good friends and great family. Winds fairly calm after a hard blow for a couple of days, 1 foot waves and wind from the South.

Smooth ride to Milwaukee by 9:30. Needed to get some fuel and Milwaukee prices are most competitive at $3.89 per gallon. We purchased 160 gallons to fill our tanks. Continued on at 11:00 wind increasing as the day progresses to 20 knots later in the day and 3 ft waves from our starboard aft quarter. The auto pilot still does not like wind and waves from this direction, so I steered most of the afternoon. We heard a soft thump like a sail filling gently as we surfed down a wave. I knew we broke the trawler sound barrier buy reaching 10.0 knots.

Arrived at Sheboygan about 4:30 about 60 nautical miles. Really nice marina and river front area. Had supper at the Duke of Devon English pub. I had cottage pie and Carol Churchill fried chicken with yummy spinach. Fortunately, Carol does not like spinach, so I helped. The marina had cable TV, so we pulled out our cable and tried to get the TV programmed to the cable. After a bit we had 83 channels to view, so that works.

We checked the weather just before bed and decided to spend Friday in the marina. Strong winds and 5 ft waves predicted. Tune in tomorrow for the changes that followed.