Day 15, Thursday June 4th 2015

Tawas Bay to Port Sanilac

I left very early today because I was planning my longest leg so far, all the way to Port Sanilac. The reason is that I want to get to Port Huron tomorrow early enough to start researching storage of Caprice for the next 6 weeks or so.

I raised anchor before the sun was up and was half way through Tawas Bay when the sun rose. Unfortunately the wind was against me and kicking up some chop. I had to motor all the way, raising any sails would have been useless today. It was also kind of misty or foggy the whole day, so there's no photos either. The AIS program showed quite a few ships in the vicinity, but I never spotted any. I did encounter some motor cruisers, but again no sail boats at all.

By afternoon the wind actually died and my speed increased, so I made it to Sanilac just after sunset but before dark. I anchored right behind the breakwater, and was immediately visited by a coast guard boat that had followed me into the harbor. They were circling me, first asking about my anchor light (doesn't work at the moment), then about my next port and previous port. I was busy trying to fix some torches as auxiliary anchor lights, and couldn't immediately remember my last port (Tawas Bay), but they were cool and didn't ask for papers or inspect me. I'd heard that the coast guard is apparently quite active here looking for illegal Canadian immigrants, but I guess when they heard my Chicago accent they let me be.