The summer has been full of wonderful adventures aboard Cygnet. This past weekend we decided to do what we've talked about for two years and other people have asked us about a lot. We decided to take Cygnet across the lake to St. Joseph, Michigan. We aren't the first, this is a pretty common thing for people to do, but we've always stayed close to home and this was our first time being more than a few miles off shore. Cygnet seems to have made the trip before based on the memories in her GPS unit, but it was a first for us and we are pretty excited about it. Excitement! We'd been invited to a wedding that was to take place in St. Joseph on Saturday and thought it was the perfect excuse and time of year (early September) to take a journey across. There were a lot of unknowns to us, which we'll get into in a bit, but we decided that we'd go for it - weather depending. First we were confident that Cygnet's engines were up to the task, after some fi...
Life aboard a boat in Chicago.