Monday, August 05, 2013

Stacy and Laura departed just as the rain began, showers, overcast and mid 60’s not much like a normal August. Our slip rental expired at 12:00 but they allowed us to stay a few extra hours since the slip would be empty this evening. We will return on Friday when Kim, Scott and Autumn come to visit. The rain eased about 1:30 and we left the dock due to the hour we would just go to Nicolet Bay and anchor out. 

Cool and grey good sea state at our departure

As we began, we charted a new course to Washington Harbor on the north corner of Washington Island a 22 mile journey. Wind from the south, building waves not a bad day to travel, sure can’t do anything else. We knew the waves would change as we passed the tip of the Door through Death’s Door. The predominant wave pattern was from the south with a secondary wave from the southeast, the secondary wave became more pronounced as we traversed the gap strong 2 ft waves from the east and south a little bouncy but not too bad. We have now learned that driving the boat from the inside is quite comfortable, out of the wind and in the middle of the bay there is not much to see besides water. 

Boyer Point

We arrived about 5:40 in the bay nicely protected from the south wind. It is hard to show this bay it is about 1 ½ nautical miles back south from the point, the bay is quite deep, we are 400 feet from shore in 26 feet of water in most bays we would be at 10 ft or less in depth. I continue to learn our instruments as the need arises, so tonight I set the anchor drift alarm. If the boat moves more than 100 feet from our anchor point an alarm will sound to wake us. I am sure that the hook is well set, the alarm is just a bit of added security.

Our SPOT device is now working so you can check our “current position” at the upper right hand corner of this blog. The nice thing about SPOT is it will send an OK message to our family members when I check in. I plan to do that each evening that we travel a significant distance.

Still cool and overcast supper soon, Salmon on the grill one of our favorites.

Below three shots of our anchorage for the evening, nice!