Getting ready to cruise

We have been on the boat since last Thursday night after a quick trip home to get medicine refills.  Now we are preparing for a two week cruise and have to return home to get the heavy duty anchor and Sharon needs to bake some bread for a two week stay at sea.  We will return to PL tomorrow afternoon and I will get the anchor and come back either tomorrow night or in the morning early.  SAM will bring the other car so we have two here.  The proposed departure time will be 0800 Sunday morning.

I am experimenting with a integrated antenna from RealLabs out of California.  It works in this marina great.  The signal strength is banging the upper limits with a 92% link quality  This makes the internet here at the marina really usable.  The price is $169.00 and worth every penny.  I am picking up 13 stations from other areas of the city and this is amazing – about 1/2 mile away for the farthest reconizable station.  I can blog again before we shove off.

The sailing plan is to go up the Lake’s east coast to White Lake for a RON.  From there to Luddington the next day and then across the lake to Sturgeon Bay and into Door County.  This is in Sturgeon Bay and we will hop from marina to marina culmunating in re-crossing the lake to South Manitou Island east side for a few days in the undeveloped harbor of the state park.  From there we will hop down the coast again to our home marina.  Estimated trip time is two weeks.