Brown Eyed Girl: No Other Loopers Yet and a Wet Ride

We wanted to go about 55 miles today from Harrisville to Presque Isle. We left a little later than usual, around 8:00 because the weather was supposed to get better as the day went on. The forecast said 1-3 foot waves but I think they were more like 4's. This could have been a turn around day but the sun was out and we felt OK but the waves were coming over the bow and keeping the windows wet. We kind of got into the pace after about an hour or two and said if it got worse we would go to Alpena. At first and for most of the trip the waves were on our bow which was wet but manageable but then we needed to turn west which put the waves on the starboard bow which made the boat waddle like a pig. We got to Presque Isle about 1:00 and as has been the norm there were very few boats in the harbor. We did pass two tall ships and 1 freighter but other than that there were not many boats out. When we were in Port Austin we met a couple on a Grand Banks from the Saginaw Bay and the captain showed me his charts with his notes on them and he said there were fishing nets out from Middle Island we were going to pass today. Since we knew they were there we were on the lookout and sure enough there were a ton of them. We got around them OK but the waves were high and the buoys were short so we could have very easily ran over them. Thank you Stuart. Thursday is supposed to be bad weather so wherever we are tomorrow we will probably be until at least Friday. We are planning on running a short 20 miles to Rogers City because I think it has more to do - like go to the hardware store and replace the kitchen faucet that Craig broke (See yesterdays post).