Guy's Weekend 7-19 & 20

I took a trip this weekend to South Haven, MI aboard Julianna, my friend Tim's Beneteau 361. Both of our wives were out of town and we thought we would set out for a guy's adventure! We had a great trip together and it was good to get to know Tim a little better. On the way to South Haven, we had all kinds of weather. It started out with no wind on Lake Mac to mild winds on Lake Michigan to a stiff breeze building to 20+ knots and waves were solid four footers. We got rained on and the fog rolled in and reduced visibility to a mile or two. We didn't see land most of the way down and relied on Tim's electronics (chartplotter, autopilot, etc.). Although it was raining most of our way down, atleast it was warm! We wore our foulies and stayed dry underneath. We never questioned why we were doing this! We really had fun...thanks Tim!! Here are some shots of our trip...

On Friday night, I slept aboard Latigo. This was the sunrise on Saturday, the morning were were leaving for South Haven.

Here I am making myself at home in the gally aboard Julianna

While Tim was sailing in this!!!

Here is Tim looking very sailorly as we were leaving the Holland Pierhead

Hot breakfast on a rainy day! The menu was Greek omlettes, sausage and english muffins

Here is one of the cells that we sailed into...there was no avoiding it!

Here the wind was blowing like stink and we had a reef in the main and genoa

This is Friends Good Will, a ship that was just outside the South Haven pierhead. It is part of the Michigan Maritime Museum at South Haven. They had a crew doing a pirate cruise. A pirate left the ship on a dinghy and attacked the power boat that is in the lower right corner. It was kinda cheezy, but they seemed to be fascinated!

Here we are leaving South Haven on Sunday morning. We enjoyed an easy sail as winds were at about 15 knots and blowing from the WSW. We reached at speeds over 7 knots.

Captain Tim enjoying a cup of coffee!