Truck Log...

8/20/2012 - Leave "the Fort" (Fort Bragg). I-80 to Reno, NV…I-80 to Salt Lake City, Utah…I-15 to Shelby, Montana…Hwy. 2 to Minot, South Dakota…Hwy. 2 to Gran Forks, Minnesota…Hwy. 2 to Duluth, MN.,…Hwy. 2 to Sault Ste. Marie, MI….cross the “Soo Locks” to Ontario, Canada…Hwy. 17 to Little Current Marina on Mantoulin Island, Lake Huron about Aug 30…..Return trip home very similar…WITH the additions of the Maritime Museum with the Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial in White Fish Point, Lake Superior….and a couple of days in Glacier-Waterton National Park, Montana/ BC…….

Splash 8/30 in Little Current Marina, Mantoulin Is. Lake Huron….Sept. 1...Cast off…four boats…Annie Westlund SunCat 17, Eric Hughes Ranger 21 Tug, Kees Prins “FETCH…Ian Oughred design 17, Me M15…Day 1…sail Wabuno Channel to Sturgeon Cove, Great Cloche Is. swim, explore island, anchor out…Sept. 2…sail Bay of Islands to Ame Droz Island…explore island…sail on to Croker Is….anchor…explore island, swim…Sept. 3..short sail to South Benjamin Is….pick Blue Berries, swim, anchor…Sept. 4 sail to Fox Is. anchor, swim, explore…Sept 5. short sail to Eagle Is. explore anchorages, explore island, anchor…Sept 6-7 sail to Spanish Mills, then to town of Spanish Mill for ice cream and fuel, laundry, etc…Marina…Sept. 8 sail Whales Back Channel to Shanty Is….anchor Sept. 9 sail back to Eagle Is….explore island, swim…Sept.10 sail to South Benjamin Island, anchor out, swim….Sept. 11…BIG STORM coming off Lake Superior in the PM…sail all the way back to Little Current…just barely ahead of big winds!! Sept. 12…hang out…then head for home!!…PC Dan

17 ft. "FETCH" with Kees Prins from Port Townsend (my friend and SCAMP build Instructor):

My “six” at the dock (with "FETCH" in the background):

Annie Westland and her SunCat 17 (our "Fearless Leader" for the trip) from Michigan:

Eric Hughes in his new Ranger 21 from Mechanicsburgh, PA (with Annie on dock in the foreground):

Annie motoring out of Little Current Marina: