mncruiser
Senior Member
The good news is it is hot as heck in Bayfield! Hope the A/C works, you will need it!
Hope to run into you this weekend!
Sean and Pam an kids!
Hope to run into you this weekend!
Sean and Pam an kids!
Wifey B: I have a question, not criticizing, but just asking. Why do you head out in such fog? Why not wait like one does for other weather conditions? I might get caught in such fog but have never intentionally taken off in it.
I apologize that I've delayed posting our progress on our final day. We got distracted by celebration and (mostly) massive cleaning required after such an adventure.
The run from Copper Harbor to Bayfield was very uneventful, mostly because you couldn't see a THING for most of the way. We had very thick fog for the first 4.5 hours. This required us to slow to 7 knots until we got far enough offshore (into the shipping lane) to be less concerned about very small craft that wouldn't show on radar. We had numerous large ship escorts and we found our place in the mix and enjoyed the ride.
Once things cleared around 12:30 it was a glorious day. Shed a few layers and enjoyed the sunshine. At 1:15 we could see land approaching and decided we'd take a "victory lap" around the Apostle Islands before heading to the dock. We changed course towards Devils Island and curved around Raspberry before heading back to Bayfield and our marina.
We didn't fill up yet so I don't have fuel burn for the final day, but it appears to be consistent with the rest (about 31 gph @2250). I'll be pulling all the final numbers together, maybe this weekend.
Saturday (as I mentioned) was cleaning and repairs. We pulled the old damaged tube off the dinghy for replacement with the new one that had just been delivered at home. I'm heading back up Wednesday and I'll be replacing that this weekend. The weekend was topped off by a visit from another TF'er (mncruiser) who left a very generous celebratory gift for us! Much enjoyed and appreciated.
Thanks to everyone for all the advice, support and encouragement throughout this journey. While I'm glad it's behind me, it was an incredible learning experience, and has set me up with far more confidence and knowledge about my boat than I could have ever gotten by just tooling around the islands, and certainly far more than if I'd had the boat delivered just by others, or by truck. If there's anything I take away from this, it's that I could have never understood or priced that into the value proposition when making the decision on how to get her home. I'm just fortunate that I made the choices that I did.
BD