Daydream's Great Loop Blog!

Jake":295lm25h said:
Did you ask the Taylors if they had any difficulty getting that GH47 thru the tight spots you encountered?
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I did not. We saw them at Little Current, and then again at Mackinac Island. However, I cannot imagine the Great Harbor 47 going through a lot of the places we did...
 
I looked at the picture of DeVos's boat, and the picture of Daydream just below it, and I can say in all honesty, your's is a much nicer looking boat.
 
Chuck, I agree. Especially now that Pat brought the brow back to its sparkling former self!
Good work there, skipper, and keep those reports of strenuous days of ice cream and sundowners coming.
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Today's blog post is about Sleeping Bear Bay and Glen Arbor!

Brock, for sure there are sundowners every day, and ice cream whenever we are near civilization!

Chuck, the bill to fill Seaquest's 20,000 gallon fuel tanks could buy Daydream several times over! And paying the crew of 12? Forget the $40 million price tag, just operating this puppy is pretty much above the combined pay grade of all the people I know!
 
What happened to Pat and Patty is so important in cruising, that I am going to start a new thread about prevention of damage and the importance of being ready to move at any time when there is danger.

Basically this means having a plan of where to go if the wind/wave conditions change, as well as a plan to get there. This may mean checking alternatives when you first arrive at an anchorage. Having routes mapped out, compass bearings, and Radar pictures of where to go.
 
Pat looking at your pictures the alum rub rail they should be able to piece in a 10-20ft piece and the rubber might be able to be saved .I love the blog and pictures Thanks
I'm glad you found your kayak .
that reminds me of loosing my deck boat in a storm on Lake Keowe in SC which was moored in a cove We found it about 5 miles away in Clemson not a scratch on it and it went under a few bridges ?Hopefully will meet you in Fl before you hit the big O take care JIm (jennykatz)
 
On reflection, the one SERIOUS error we made was not checking what the wind direction and speed would be overnight. That would have been so easy with SailFlow, which we usually check morning, noon and night. If we had known that overnight the wind would shift to the west and hit speeds of more than 20 with gusts to 30 mph, that night would not have found us tied to the Free Wall, since the St, Joseph River, and the Free Wall, are wide open to west winds off Lake Michigan.

Another thing that Ed, our repair guy in New Buffalo told us, was that we should always consider tying up bow into the direction where winds could come fron. As it was, each wave hit out stern, pushed us forward, then the boat came back when the wave passed, and so on, over and over all night long. The waves hitting the bow would have been much less damaging than hitting the stern.

Woulda. coulda, shoulda...

Dr. Bob is right to make this a teaching moment for all C-Brats who may find themselves in a similar situation in the future.

 
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