Last night’s thunderstorms rumbled through the area until after midnight. We had some gusty winds, heavy rain and a lot of electrical activity, mostly cloud to cloud and no close ground strikes. Nothing that was sever, but forty miles south on a line from Milwaukie to Grand Rapids things were a lot worse. Grand Rapids reported wind gust to 60 mph with a lot of tree damage, and Holland, MI reported over 6 inches of rain with a lot of flash flooding in the area.
We got to bed a little late and there was nothing but rain after that. The plan for today was to run to Manistee, 65 miles. I was up at 6:00 and the forecast looked like we could probably go. We had breakfast and were going to leave by 7:00, but shortly after 6:30 the wind picked up from 8-10 to 15 gusting 20 and fog moved in with visibility down to about half a mile, scratch leaving early.
About 9:00 when Don Nelson walked down the fog had lifted and the wind was down some, Don offered to get his motorboat out. We rode out the channel to the big lake, It looked like it might be OK to go shortly but the waves were still rolling pretty good from last night’s storm. It was
too late to make Manistee leaving now so the best we could due would be Ludington and although safe it wouldn’t be a pleasant ride. We decided that with a good weather forecast for the next three days we would wait and try for Manistee tomorrow.White Lake was hosting an “MC” regatta this weekend so there was lots of activity around the club. I spent the day talking boats with lots of new friends and a few old ones. Diana spent a quite day doing some painting.
It turned into a beautiful afternoon with bright sunshine temperatures near 80 and a pleasant breeze. Diana got out some pork tenderloin; we grilled it and had a baked sweet potato, salad and fresh strawberries. When I get this posted we will walk up and have one of the WLYC’s dollar ice cream cones.
All in all a wonderful day considering we made no progress on our journey north.
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