Mackinac Island, July 5

Another warm, sunny and breezy day. I think today was the warmest day we’ve experienced here yet so far. I believe it was in the low 80’s. We decided to stick with plan A. That is, we will stay here the next two nights, and then leave on Monday as originally planned. Our friends, John and Eileen, from the Tomcat, Cat-O-Mine, took an Uber from the Cheboygan marina where they are slipped, up to Mackinaw City, and then the ferry over here to Mackinac Island. We visited for a short time, and then they explored the historic Fort here, and down town, before heading back on the ferry. The harbor master found us another nice slip, shoreside, that we are able to stay our last two nights, so that helped us with deciding to stay here, rather than heading over to one of the mainland marinas. The rest of today was just spent relaxing. My knee has been bothering me some, likely from all the bicycling, and Rosanne is a little sore also. (We don’t do this much biking at home…) It’s nice to just sit, read, relax and watch the people and the horses. However, I did ride a very short distance to check out a couple of Protestant churches for service tomorrow morning. This evening I attended Mass with Rosanne. We’ll attend an Episcopal church tomorrow morning, if it isn’t raining. (Rain in the forecast for late tonight through tomorrow morning.) Earlier today while moving the boat from slip 2 to slip 7, which I was just going to use the kicker to do, I was having issues with keeping the kicker running. Ended up having to use the main outboard. Once set up in the slip I started looking at the kicker. Found the kicker’s small inline fuel filter had a crack in its seam. This was letting air in. I do carry spare filters and such, so replaced it and that seemed to fix the problem.Leer más