Sailing Lake Kalamzoo
Sailing Lake Kalamazoo. We had a great fall Saturday here in West Michigan. The sun was shinning and the weather was superb. We very well could have gone out to the big lake and sailed. Instead we decided to pull out from our dock at Tower Marine and put up the sails. This is the second time we have sailed Lake Kalamazoo. It is very shallow in areas and you really have to get to know the lake. Watching the eyes of the other big boats owners turn into saucer as we turn out of the marked channel and into the lake is just great. We started with talking with people around are marina and getting some local knowledge. Looking at the lake on Google satellite view then pulled the charts for lake K-Zoo from the NOAH web site . With the map and charts we where able to link up some visual land marks with water depth data. From their it was experimentation. We started and worked northwest to southeast with our depth sounder expecting to sail from center dock at Tower to the large