Trawler Blogs

We spent a very warm (I won’t say hot in deference to my Wichita friends who are sweltering) afternoon touring the SS Keewatin… a Great Lakes passenger ship built in the same era and by the same builder as the Titanic…now a living maritime museum….

Saugatuck ( pronounced SAW-ga-tuck)…yes, we’ve been saying it wrong. It is another in the string of safe harbor towns located every 20 miles down the east side of Lake Michigan. We didn’t need the guide book to tell us about the “little houses” or th…

Yesterday was a very warm day…and to add to the discomfort we were invaded by biting flying friends…by the HUNDREDS. We have experienced the big green headed ones in the Carolina’s…they didn’t bite…but these appear to be black house flies…onl…

I must say that leaving Grand Haven on Tuesday was just a little different than entering on Sunday. Can you see the difference? Ware in awe of the amount of tourist traffic and boating we see going on in Michigan. Who knew???? It is tourist trap-ville …

So far this leg we have experienced what I like to call…impeccable timing. We have missed storms, gotten great service or slips, gotten in or out of some pretty tricky situations ..all because of our accidental timing. Well, today was another impecca…