Day 360: Saturday, August 30, 2013
Port to Port: Frankfort, Michigan
Underway: 0:00 am Motor Off: 0:00 pm Miles Traveled: 0 Stayed At: Marina
First Things First: First time having live music during docktails.
Mile to Mile: Someone told us Frankfort was a popular place to go fishing on Lake Michigan. I didn’t realize how popular until last night when we were chatting by the boat and, for over an hour, a continuous stream of small fishing boats returned to the harbor, in the dark, after having spent the day out on the lake trying to catch their limit of king salmon. I have never seen so many fishing boats in one place ever. Almost all of them headed for the boat landing a few blocks down from the marina – I wish I had gone down there to see what they caught. It would have been interesting.
We are staying in port today to wait for better weather – the winds are supposed to be 20+mph out of the south (they would be on our nose for 50+ miles) with higher gusts and a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Everyone else seems to have had the same idea. One sailboat at anchor did try to leave but turned around and came back – they were seeing 6+ foot waves even near shore. Not a fun time.
After taking a shower early, I hopped on Kent’s handy folding bike and trekked a short ride down to the grocery store to get buttermilk and a few other things. Can you guess what we need that for? Well, we headed over to Jubilate to make ebleskivers, of course. As usual, not a single ‘skiver survived the morning. We chatted about boats and cruising and ebelskivers the whole morning. What a blast. We’ll have to be stranded more often. Warren and Marti are doing a really long day tomorrow – about 90 miles – to get as close to home as possible before the next weather system moves through. It’s always hard to say goodbye but we always have hope that we will see each other again.
After spending some time at the library (me) and doing laundry (Cindy), somehow or another it was time for docktails again. This time we had some charcoal for grilling and we invited our Looper friends from the other marina over too – the more the merrier. We even had live music – some old timey music – right in the covered picnic area – it was music in the park night. Eddy and Linda would have been dancing in the aisles.
