Middle Bass Island Yacht Club hold events on weekends and this past weekend was the Raingutter Regatta and Cardboard Boat Race. We decided last year to participate this year and build a cardboard boat. When we told my father about this, he decided that he wanted in on the project. Dad is/was a Professional Engineer. He ran the natural gas utility back home in NY and he was the PE on staff. So in typical PE fashion, anything worth doing right is worth overdoing! So it began late last year....

We are on the move again this summer. We are heading up to Mackinaw but we are stopping at some new places. The idea is to have stopped at every marina along the Michigan coast of Lake Huron. Our trip is from Friday July 24 to Friday August 7th. Day 0 - Load in We left the house around 4:30 which allowed us to get to the marina, get everything out of the truck and into the boat. I made dinner and then attended a Yacht Club Board of Directors meeting on Zoom. Once that was done we...

We got the call yesterday afternoon that the boat is launched and commissioned. So we discussed things quickly and decided to run out to move the boat from the storage facility dock over to our slip at the Marina. Everything went without a hitch. I was worried about it being a bit windy so I had everything planned out in my head. When we shoved off and started going, the wind started to let up. The wind was from the southwest so there really weren't any waves out on the lake so it turned...