Detroit MI

What a great day! It was overcast when we left Ford Yacht Club in Grosse Isle, MI but the wind had subsided, which made traveling easier. We had a nice slow cruise thru a few channels to the Detroit River, so much to see! I'm posting a few of the pictures. One is of the channel taken out of our front window, the other is of the buildings along the way, the third is of Caesars in Windsor on the Canadian side. We were on the water for about 4 hours today. Our destination is the Detroit Yacht Club, right on the Detroit river.

We arrived @ DYC around 3:00, it is a beautiful place and the all the employees are very helpful. Across the river from the docks is Downtown Detroit, very nice. The DYC is located on Belle Isle, on one side is U.S. the other is Windsor, Canada. We had lunch and dinner at the club, great food, and surprisingly reasonable. Most of the boats here are about the same size and style of ours or larger, so we had a nice stroll down the docks looking at all the different boats.

Depending on the weather tomorrow, we will either stay here another day or head up to the North channel. To get there we will go thru Lake St. Clair, to Anchor Bay and the North Channel is off that. Ben's family has a marina up there called "Sassy Marina". Ben is my cousin Nia's husband. So if you are reading this Nia & Ben, we will probably give you a call tomorrow.

We hope all is well back home, we miss everyone, and we're having a wonderful time.

Middle Bass Island

Since our last post we have left Kelly's Island and went a little farther to the new state park marina at Middle Bass Island. The marina was beautiful, just opened on the 4th of July weekend, however they do not have their power or water yet. Good thing we have a generator.

We left Middle Bass this morning and headed to Grosse Isle, MI. We are staying at Ford Yacht Club, it's a nice place, and they have electric and water, yeah. And no snakes. It's been pretty uneventful so far.

Kelley's Island

We are in Kelly's island, the wind was pretty bad last night and this morning . We stayed at the boat most of today so Jim could re-adjust the lines as needed. It seems to have calmed down now, so hopefully we will head out tomorrow morning. The water snakes up here are all over. The picture is of a raised flower bed on the dock next to our boat, lucky us! Jim tried to count how many heads he saw, the highest count was 43. They just pile up and sun themselves, really gross.

This weekend is Island Fest up here, today there was a parade which we were able to watch from our boat, and tonight there were fireworks, again a front row seat from the boat.


We may go to Toledo before we head towards Detroit tomorrow, not sure yet. That's part of the fun. Of course everything depends on the weather.



Thanks to our friends Tom & Suzy from Vermilion, they came down to the pier and took the pictures of our departure.

Departure Day

It is finally here, we leave tomorrow morning! We got all the parts we were waiting on and Jim did the installation over the weekend. So everything is working well.

Dan, our son, and my Mom drove us up on Monday and left us without a vehicle, which was the plan, except I forgot that I needed to grocery shop. Jan, the office manager at our Marina, Vermilion Power Boats, offered us her car to do our last minute errands. Yeah Jan! Also thanks to Jim Wight who offered his car as well.

We are not going far the first day, we are heading to Kelly's Island for a couple days, it's on the way. Haven't been there for about 20 yrs, we usually end up in Put in Bay, so it's time to see how much Kelly's has changed. I will take some pictures and see if I can figure out how to post them from the camera.

New update

OK, here is the update. When they say nothing is manufactured in the good old United States, I would have to agree. The hold up is the satellite TV antennae, it is coming from the UK, where it is made, we have been promised that we should receive this by Friday, the 17th. If it does arrive, Jim will install over the weekend and then we should be able to leave on Tuesday/Wednesday. That should make this trip a month late in starting. Good thing I'm not superstitious! We did get the spare props on time. Yeah.

So again, thanks for all well wishes and prayers, and we will keep you posted