[Rhodes22-list] Rhodes22 spotting

[Rafe]

Ron,

We keep our boat in Jackson harbor which is straight
east from Michigan City.  They have one star dock
which we like better than the walk ups.  I am not
sure, but Jackson harbor might cost less than Monroe. 
You might want to check it out sometime.  There is
some sort of Yacht Club, but we have never signed up
for it.  We keep a dingy there, but when we have
guest, we just take the boat right up to the dingy
dock - the water is about five feet deep there.

How long does  it take to sail from Michigan City?  I
guess you have been doing this for a few years now. 
Do you always sail down?  Do you live in Michigan or
are there other reasons for storing your boat there?

After what we got caught in today, I would be very
careful about the weather for your sail down.  On the
up side, the longer it takes you to get your boat
ready the better the weather will tend to be.  I think
there are weather buoys that might help you.  The
closest online one to you I could find just now is:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.phtml?station=45007

and Dial-A-Buoy which can give you up to the hour 
wind speed and wave hight:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/dial.shtml#howdo

There probobly are a few more.  Some day I want to
take a fairly long sail trip on Michigan - so I guess
I need to start collecting these resources.  A couple
of things nice about Dial-A Buoy are the up to the
hour reports and the fact that you only need a cell
phone.  

Rafe
1988 Rhodes22 "Roo"  -- my last email tried to change
the boat name to RoRoo and something else - The name
has not changed since I got the boat: "Roo".

--- Ronald Lipton <rlipton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Rafe,
> 
>   Where did you motor to?  I am in Monroe harbor
> this year 
> but I keep the boat in Michigan city.  I plan to
> sail down to
> Chicago either next weekend or the one after,
> depending on 
> how much work I need to do to finish preparation and
> how 
> much help I have.  
> 
> I will pay attention to the weather reports. It is
> not good to 
> get caught 20 miles from the nearest harbor when the
> 
> weather turns.  The lake can get pretty nasty when
> there 
> have been a few days of North winds with the full
> 300 mile 
> fetch.
> 
> Ron
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rafe" <rafe00 at ameritech.net>
> To: "Rhodes22-list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 8:43 PM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Rhodes22 spotting
> 
> 
> > While motoring up the river we saw a lighter green
> > Rhodes22 at Crowley's Yacht Yard in Chicago. 
> Anyone
> > on this list? 
> > 
> > 
> > Sunday May 2 - Lake Michigan knocked us around
> > alalotoday.  With the mast down we had no choice
> but
> > to motor.  Every 6th wave was a huge wall of water
> - I
> > found it better not to look behind us.  A couple
> times
> > we had a wall of water right in front of the boat.
> 
> > The boat would just start to  nip into the wave
> before
> > the wave would move on.  When you are in the low
> part
> > of one wave looking up into the high part of
> another,
> > 4 to 6 foot waves look very large (they look like
> 8 to
> > 12 foot waves).  We only took one big wave on the
> side
> > and RoRooook it very well.  I got splashed just
> that
> > one time - very dry boat, but I am going to start
> > paying much closer attention to the
> whweathereports. 
> > Sometimes you just have to wait.  
> > 
> > Rafe and Amy
> > 1988 Rhodes22 - RoRoo
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