Monday, June 30, 2008

Travel with Albion - Sunday 6/29/2008

Bouncy night on the hook.  Early morning we had the idea of pulling up anchor and tying up at an old dock in the harbor.  The plan was to tie up at the dock a few hours and  hike to the western shore of Sand Island to see the old light house.  We ran aground approaching the docks and quickly abandoned that plan. So we sailed by the western shore of Sand Island and had a lakeside view of the Light house.

 

We sailed SW with a good wind out of North.  Early afternoon the winds shifted to the SW and then died. So we motored on into Port Wing. A sleepy safe refuge up the river with rickety old docks, fishing boats, and the normal small harbor welcoming crew to take our lines on arrival.  Only one small sailboat in this harbor.  So we are using our advantage (small) with being about to tuck in such a place for the night. We hope this ability to tuck in small places helps us on the North Shore where rumor has it being 150 miles between ports. 

 

Lake temperatures were more noticeable today.  We went from multiple layers and a stocking cap to shorts and a T shirt (and still hot) at the dock…