Lake Mac and Back

This morning we ate breakfast at the dock and set out around 9:30 which means by the time we got to the lake it was around 10 AM.  The wind was just starting to build in real slowly this morning. It was blowing straight from the south. We sailed up the wind northwest and then back to the northeast.  It would have been an amazing spinnaker run.  However, I decided to error on the side of caution. With just me and the kiddo aboard I didn't want to do a spinnaker set on this boat for the 1st time on my own. 

We made it to Lake Macatawa around 1:00 in the afternoon.  Did I mention it was not very breezy?   6.4 knots was our max speed and we averaged 4.5. It was a great day out on the lake and we made it back to Tower by 4 PM. 

Here we are hanging out on the foredeck while the tiller clutch does the driving. 

In this picture, you can just see the caution marks for the dredge operation going on at the mouth of the channel.  This prompted us to keep a wide berth as we neared the lighthouse from the south.  One frame to the right of this picture the dredges were being pumped out.