Our final day aboard Wired IV could not have been any nicer. We pulled out of Leland Harbor at 6:00am and had beautiful weather all day across Lake Michigan. It was dead calm flat out there for our entire 9 hour and 220 mile journey to Port St Joe.
Once we cleared the entrance to the Leland Harbor, we set the throttles and did not touch them all day. She cruised happily at 25mph and we didn’t see any ice all day. Daryl said a flat day like this on Lake Michigan is very rare. We paid our dues the previous day, so we deserved a nice day to finish our trip. We arrived at Daryl’s home marina, Pier 1000 at 3:15pm.
From the time we left Staten Island, NY on Saturday, May 3rd, we covered 1,416 miles in 8 days. Crossed 4 out of the 5 Great Lakes, went through 38 locks and burned 2,037 gallons of fuel. We did not have one weather delay on the entire trip. That by itself is an amazing feat. We put a total of 84 hours on the boat during the voyage averaging 10.5 hours per day of running. We had two days that were 14 hours.
We were greeted by the whole extended family when we arrive in Benton Harbor. It was great to meet Daryl’s family and put faces to names of all the people we talked about during our trip. You really get to know a person when you spend that much time together on a boat. I am glad to call Daryl a friend and look forward to hearing about his adventures this summer on his new boat.
Here are the last of the pictures from the trip dating back to our run across Lake Erie, up through Detroit, across Lake Huron and the ice.
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