We pulled up the anchor at 6:15 am and headed west across Lake Michigan. We would have liked to stay on the Michigan side a while longer; however, after listening to the forecast, we decided that Tuesday was going to be a better day for a crossing than Wednesday. The skies were mostly clear and the wind was out of the east at 6 knots in the morning building and changing to the south at 16 knots in the afternoon. There was talk of thunderstorms with 35 mph winds coming in by midnight, so we motorsailed the 55 miles directly across and took dockage at the Algoma, Wisconsin, city marina.
Since we gained an hour
traveling west into Central Time, it was only 2:00 pm when we tied up to the dock. Algoma, The Sportsman’s Fishing Capital of the Great Lakes, is a city of 3,300 people with a nice downtown and all of the services we were interested in within a few blocks of the marina. We took Lucy for a walk and stopped at a couple of shops including the Von Stiehl Winery. After going back to the boat and completing a few chores, we left Lucy aboard and walked back to the winery to sample and purchase some local wine.
With the boat secured, we settled in for a stormy night.
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