Lily Pad @ "Sassy Marina"

These Lily pads were all over in the water up at Sassy, they close up at night and open in the morning. :)

DYC in Michigan

Here are a few pictures of the Detroit Yacht Club that we stayed at. We were on this dock, with the yacht club in the background. The pool was huge and the grounds were well taken care of with flowers all over. I know it's a rough life, but someone has to do it.

We left Detroit Thursday morning and headed to Lake St Clair and on up to the St Clair River. We took the south channel of the St Clair to the north channel where we found the "Sassy Marina".

The weekend was jam packed, we met Ben's sister Liz at the marina and she informed us that Ben & Nia were coming in for a wedding this weekend, and we were invited to join them. Liz also loaned us one of her cars for the weekend, awesome!! Friday evening we went to Ben's brothers house for a BBQ, where we met more of the family. Saturday we checked out the town a little then went to the wedding. We had such a great time. On Sunday we took a dinghy ride on the canals around the marina, weather has been perfect, around 75 breezy, sunny and blue skies and Blue water. Then we went to Ben's parents house and hung out for awhile and said goodbye to Ben & Nia who were heading back to Ohio.

Today we head out, back to the St Clair River and up toward Lake Huron, where we will find a marina and spend the night. Looks like we may be hitting some rain on our travels today, hopefully we will not encounter any T'storms. Catch everyone later, and thanks for all the comments, it's nice to hear from everyone and know that you are all out there keeping tabs on us.

Love to all.

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