Radar is a wonderful thing. We cuirsed about 50 or 60 miles up the east shore from Ludington to Frankfort and had at times less than a few hundred feet of visibility. It turned out my radar has worked on the entire trip. It’s crazy this is actually working now, but I can say I will never recommend Raymarine to anyone. I do not think it is worth the hype and Raymarine needs to do some work to get me back on their good side.
From the expensive chart maps that give you nothing worth the money, to the sketchy functioning issues.
From the expensive chart maps that give you nothing worth the money, to the sketchy functioning issues.
On our way up to Frankfort we stopped in three different cities on our way cruising up the east shoreline of Lake Michigan: Manistee, Portage Lake and Arcadia. Manistee was quite the disappointment. The city looks like a ghost town. Not a single restaurant open for breakfast, 50% of the town’s buildings were vacant. We ended up eating at a coffee shop and then left.
We went to Portage Lake next, and it was pretty but backwards. The resort there was run down and at around 12:30-1pm the bar and dining room was not open. We couldn’t even get lunch and to top it off as we were trying to figure out what to do, we saw some young boys sitting on our boat's rail and messing with it when we decided to leave. Again, disappointed and will not go back.
Arcadia was nice, the people were great and the town was small. I could stay there a night or two, but that would be tops. We had called Jacobson Marina in Frankfort, and they were not taking reservations yet, because they were so busy. I think it may have been the fog keeping everyone in their slips. So, we decided when we were going into Acadia, if we did not have a slip there, and if we did not hear from Jacobson Marina before leaving Arcadia we were going to just say screw it and cross. While we were waiting in Arcadia for a place to tie up we got the call from Jacobson.
So we went on to Jacobson. In Frankfort there is a very famous light house named Point Betsie. We decided to take the bikes there and check it out. Again with the hills, this place must have received all the hills in the Midwest I think. In an attempt to make the ride a bit better for Susan, I decided to take Pierce on my bike with the tow behind cart. Pulling this trailer was not fun to say the least. At Point Betsie we saw many people enjoying the lake with large groups. They had beach fires and were cooking out. On the way back we saw where the Shakespeare event was going on in town. I guess they have Chicago actors, producers and directors performing two Shakespeare plays in town for like a month, Macbeth and A Mid-Summers Night. There is also a ship here on tour that is a replica of a 1812 schooner war ship,
The plan for tomorrow is to go back across some time mid-morning, as we have to get Peyton to Menominee on Sat at about noon.
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