This was, for us, two days of winding down, reflection and some private celebrating before we set off on the last leg of our trip, to Charlevoix.We took a long hike around the upper Island and had, at our favorite lunch restaurant, bloody Mary’s. Then …

We left in somewhat rough waters but not too bad. We were surprised by how many empty slips in Mackinaw Island. They are usually full this time of year. We arrived late afternoon as one of our engines was acting up, we think from some bad gas we got a …

We left Wednesday morning to cross Lake Huron. We got up about 5:00 and left our anchorage with a beautiful sunrise and mostly clear skies, calm waters for the most part but heavy fog a few miles out that lasted until we were almost on top of Presque I…

We spent one night at Beacon Bay Marina. Had a great dinner, at Scully’s, in Midland with Rick and Mary, on the other Kismet, and left the next morning for Lion’s Head Marina in Lion’s Head, Ontario. Didn’t do much as the weather was rather gloomy. Tue…

Today we left our peaceful anchorage and headed for the Big Chute Marine Railway just a few miles up river from where we anchored.We approached the carriage contraption that they load the boats on and they loaded a sailboat on the front side and loaded…