BlueJacket Sailing Logs

[GeoffSchultz]

Posted a log and photo album covering Mackinac Island, MI.

Log: http://www.geoffschultz.org/Log_Page.php?id=1383
Photos: http://www.geoffschultz.org/2010_Sailin ... ac_Island/

-- Geoff

[GeoffSchultz]

Posted a log and photo album covering Charlevoix, MI as well as Sleeping Bear Dunes & Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

Log: http://www.geoffschultz.org/Log_Page.php?id=1384
Photos: http://www.geoffschultz.org/2010_Sailin ... harlevoix/

We've been stuck here in northern MI for a couple of weeks due to gales. Here's a a photo of the wind speed as of last night for the past 24 hours:



Here's a graph of the wave heights over the past 5 days. Don't let the low wave heights on the 5th through 7th fool you...the buoy was in the lee of the land. There have been 15 footers out there!



And here's an image of the marina entrance:



Needless to say, we're not moving!

-- Geoff

[rvivian]

So where was the Edmund Fitzgerald anyway?

Stay safe!!

[GeoffSchultz]

So where was the Edmund Fitzgerald anyway?

Just N of here in Whitefish Bay in Lake Superior.

-- Geoff

[GeoffSchultz]

I posted 2 new logs:

The first one covers Leland, MI: http://www.geoffschultz.org/Log_Page.php?id=1385
And the other covers our passage across Lake Michigan to Green Bay, WI including Sister Bay and Fish Creek: http://www.geoffschultz.org/Log_Page.php?id=1386

I also posted a photo album covering Charlevoix and Leland, MI: http://www.geoffschultz.org/2010_Sailin ... ix_Leland/

-- Geoff

[GeoffSchultz]

I posted the final trip log from Racine, WI where we've hauled BlueJacket in preparation for shipping her to San Diego. We spent 12 days working hard at the Pugh marina getting BlueJacket ready to ship to San Diego via truck. In order to do this, the maximum height of the boat from the bottom of the keel to the highest point couldn't be more than 12'6". To achieve this, we had to remove the sails, mast, boom, dodger, radar mast, wind generator and mast, bow pulpit, dorads and lots of other items. These then had to be securely stowed for the 2200 mile ride. This is not an easy task...

You can find this log at http://www.geoffschultz.org/Log_Page.php?id=1387

I also posted photo albums for the Green Bay area and Milwaukee to Racine at:

http://www.geoffschultz.org/2010_Sailin ... Green_Bay/ and
http://www.geoffschultz.org/2010_Sailin ... ee_Racine/

-- Geoff

[Michel]

Geoff,
Nice drill, getting the boat ready for trucking. I had Alabama Queen trucked from Mobile, AL to Port Canaveral, FL, a 1000 mile trip. Despite removing the bow pullpit and anchor windlass she was still too high for the standard road permit. I had to hire a pole car, yes a guy with a telescopic pole to lift the overhead powelines at road junctions, to let the truck pass under the wires.
Yes, there she goes onto the truck!

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[katorpus]

Michel

I hope you didn't PAY for 1,000 miles between Mobile & Port Canaveral, since it's only about 1/2 of that distance.

[Michel]

Ah, that would explain why I had to pay only $750 for the truck trip and $250 for the pole car. I found that quite economical. I think I just got the wrong distance in my memory.

[GeoffSchultz]

It seems like it's been non-stop boat work since coming back home. After I got back I realized that I could save over a BOAT buck by flying back to Milwaukee and repairing the rudder and painting the bottom by myself, so last week I flew back to Milwaukee and did both jobs. Everything turned out well.

Unfortunately the shipping for BlueJacket hasn't been going as planned. The boat that the shipper was picking up before BlueJacket was 2 days late getting into harbor and that pushed everything back, which means that instead of picking BlueJacket up on Thursday (today), she won't get picked up until Monday and then delivered to San Diego on Friday (at best). I'm actually guessing over the weekend and then getting splashed on Monday. That's a long way from splashing Thursday. Unfortunately we already have our tickets and hotel reservations, so we'll be wasting a lot of time and money waiting for the boat.

However, over the past 2 days I've been researching our trip from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas. I really needed to lay out where the anchorages and marinas were along the coast, so I took guide books and entered that information into Active Captain (http://www.ActiveCaptain.com) which has a database of anchorages/marinas/points-of-interest that are user generated and which can be synchronized with the database on my PC based Coastal Explorer navigation software. I entered close to 150 anchorages/marinas covering all of the Pacific side of Mexico into Active Captain, and now anyone who uses this free service has access to them. Then I synchronized my PC with the on-line database and used these placemarks to generate a route down the coast. I was happy to find that we'll only have 1 overnight over 923 nm, as the admiral doesn't really like overnights.

Here's my proposed route:



Anyhow, if you haven't tried ActiveCaptain, I strongly suggest that you do. It's really cool FREE web site and we used it extensively this summer to plan our route through the Great Lakes. What's make it really neat is that users get to create their own placemarks for anchorages/marinas/etc and rate them. Other users get to rate their experience with these locations, so it's like a wiki for mariners.

-- Geoff