Monday, 20 June 2022: Hartung

It got up to 96’ today in Green Bay.  The high in Georgetown was 101’. Guess it is summer.  

Justin found a bench for the dock on marketplace and I am so looking forward to enjoying sunsets now on our very own bench.

Justin looks at boats all the time online.  I think that’s just what a lot of guys do.  I call it boat porn. So, he found a boat he wanted to go look at in Montague Michigan.  

We made an event out of the trip and took the SSBadger from Manitowoc to Ludington, Michigan.   After a quick one hour drive to Manitowoc, we were in line ready to board and enjoy the 4-hour crossing.  The SS Badger, in operation for more than 60 years, is the last coal-powered passenger steamship in operation in the US.  Unfortunately, Gemma had to stay in the car.  They left a nice metal bowl of water for her.  We will be sure to return that on our next passage.  Justin and I totally chilled.  We had a refreshing adult beverage or two.  We watched a movie, we played cribbage.  It was beautiful watching the shoreline of Wisconsin disappear and then the eastern shore appear.  Lovely drive to Montague.  After three nights, we were on our way home this time taking the northern route.  Quaint villages, Sleeping Bear Dunes.  We bought a lifetime pass to National Parks.  

And, we bought a boat.  Yes we did.  “Purr” is a 35’ Seacraft Cherokee catamaran.  We went out sailing one afternoon with Roger, the previous owner, and another guy from the marina.  There was a breakdown in communication somewhere and a few other decisions that might be questionable — there were no limbs lost but one sail got rather beat up and one block broke during our time out on White Lake. Justin doesn’t think she will be exceptionally fast, but she is gonna be fun.  She needs love but maybe only with regard to the interior.  Roger, the previous owner, has owned the boat for 26 years.  He’s totally redone the engine, the electrical system, and I don’t even know what else.  That leaves us to worry first about redoing the port aft berth (we want a queen bed rather than a double) and setting up the galley.