45°2′58″ N 87°16′59″ W

We arrived in Egg Harbor at about 9:45am Central time (10:45 Eastern). Roughly 15 hours travel time & 175 kilometers travelled (95 nautical miles).

We are now only a few miles from Molly & Bo’s place. This is the closest marina so they will come here to fetch us.

The weather is sunny & hot. We both had several naps on the overnight passage. Now it’s time to catch up on some more zzzzzzzzz before we explore the town.

Cheers!

45°16′51″ N 86°56′13″ W

As promised, here is my sunrise report.

We made it through the night without any problems. Chris & I took turns on watch & sleeping/napping.

The autohelm worked perfectly & kept us on track without any need for adjustment, except for our pre planned course changes.

The Honda generator ran perfectly as well – standing in for our alternator.

We are now leaving Lake Michigan & entering the waters of Green Bay. At sometime through the night we also passed through a time zone & are now in the Central time zone.

I’ll give another brief report when we arrive at our next destination, which is Egg Harbor.

Cheers!

45°13′51″ N 85°52′59″ W

It’s just turned midnight & we have traveled about 1/3 of the total distance to our destination.

GPS says we have traveled about 24 nautical miles & we have about 60 more to go – roughly 8-9 hours more. Average speed is about 7 knots.

Chris & I are taking turns on the helm while the other naps. Not much to do except watch the chart plotter to confirm we are on course & keep an eye on the engine instrument gauges.

There are lots of stars in the sky overhead but the forward visibility is pretty much non existent. As a result all we can do is watch for other the lights of other boats.

Water depth in this part of the lake is consistently over 400 feet so there’s not any worry about running aground.

There is a slight chop on the water but we are having a comfortable passage & the marine forecast is very good. Light winds, no thunderstorms & wave heights of 2 feet or less.

Time for my nap, I’ll post another report at sunrise.

45°7′48″ N 85°36′8″ W

We spent the day in Northport waiting for a mechanic to look at the alternator. When he arrived his prognosis was not good. After several tests he pronounced it to be “kaput”.

We determined that the Honda generator that we had on board was more than capable of providing ample power to run Ananda’s 110v battery charger.

The wind, wave & weather forecast for tonight & tomorrow is really favorable to us so we have decided to make an overnight passage to Egg Harbor. That will give us more time with Bo & Molly & it will also give us more time to resolve the alternator issues.

I think Chris is ready to go!

45°7′47″ N 85°36′48″ W

Late yesterday afternoon we noticed that the alternator was not charging the batteries. We were only about 30 minutes away from our destination so we shut off our autopilot (a big energy user) and continued to our destination.

By the time we arrived and got tied up at the dock we were too tired to troubleshoot the alternator problem – plus the engine was pretty hot to work around.

This morning I found a loose ground connection on one of the batteries and hoped that that would solve the problem. Unfortunately it has not.

I have called the local marine service yard and asked them to send over a mechanic. Hopefully he can quickly identify & resolve the problem & we can get underway again.

Stay tuned & keep your fingers crossed for us!