The July 4th Weekend

We decided to get out of the marina this past weekend and headed to the next port which is 32 miles to the north. One would think that being the 4th of July that it would be warm and sunny. Na, we had a Canadian low pressure system parked over us for a week that brought in cooler weather and clouds with rain. We left Whitehall @ 6 am Friday morning and motored the full distance to Pentwater for the fire works that night.

We went up with 2 other boats as we all had on warm clothes and some were even wrapped up in sleeping bags just to stay warm. We had fog most of the way as the water had turned over and was 45 to 50 degrees making for a foggy motor. While entering the channel into Pentwater which is not that big, we were already behind one of the sailboats that were in our group and long behold here comes mister ash@*%@ on half plane needing to get in between us for some ungodly reason. Well if one has ever been in a sailboat and to have a huge power boat come by you on half plane. Hang on! Well it did piss me off so as I closed in on his stern with my anchor about almost in his rear, I think he got the idea what he had done. I sure hope so.







Our youngest daughter and her hubby joined us for the day as we went into town and ate and walked around then dingyed back out to the boat for the fireworks that evening. They were not the best but better then nothing as it is nice to have them to view. One of the 2 boats that went up with us Friday asked if we wanted to have Breakfeast Saturday morning with them on there boat so we agreed. We cooked the saussage links and brought the OJ. Well dumy me I wanted to get the dink ready to go over so I untied it and was going to get in it, as I was doing that I kicked it and yep, away it goes by it's self drifting off. So I had no way to get it but swim. Ah it was refreshing but we managed.

Going back to Whitehall was pretty much the same but we had rain for about a hour as i was still cold and no wind. But you could see that the finally the weather pattern was starting to change as a high was starting to arrive which we knew was going to bring warmer weather in the coming week ahead.