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Hello all,

This summer (June 2011) my wife and I plan to take our 26S to Sturgeon Bay, launch and explore the bay and Door County penninsula. Anyone ever done this? Any recomendations for stopovers, harbors, moorings etc.? Anyone care to join a flotilla? This will be our first ever multiple day excursion. We hope to see a lot of the area and to experince the joy of sailing big water in this boat. Any info or cautions would be welcome. I promise to post a journal with pictures. We are going the end of June for 10 days. I will firm dates soon if anyone wishes to join up or cares to meet at some way point. Thanks Capt.Bob

Keep an eye out for viking relics.

slugbug wrote:Hello all,
This summer (June 2011) my wife and I plan to take our 26S to Sturgeon Bay, launch and explore the bay and Door County penninsula. Anyone ever done this? Any recomendations for stopovers, harbors, moorings etc.? Anyone care to join a flotilla? This will be our first ever multiple day excursion. We hope to see a lot of the area and to experince the joy of sailing big water in this boat. Any info or cautions would be welcome. I promise to post a journal with pictures. We are going the end of June for 10 days. I will firm dates soon if anyone wishes to join up or cares to meet at some way point. Thanks Capt.Bob

Something seems wrong with a Chicago guy remarking about Viking relics in Green Bay waters...

And I thought the NFL Lockout was crazy...

I'll be interested in reading/seeing your journal! I hope to explore that area in a couple years! Hope you have a great time!

Doug
http://starsloop.blogspot.com

slugbug wrote:Hello all,

This summer (June 2011) my wife and I plan to take our 26S to Sturgeon Bay, launch and explore the bay and Door County penninsula. Anyone ever done this? Any recomendations for stopovers, harbors, moorings etc.? Anyone care to join a flotilla? This will be our first ever multiple day excursion. We hope to see a lot of the area and to experince the joy of sailing big water in this boat. Any info or cautions would be welcome. I promise to post a journal with pictures. We are going the end of June for 10 days. I will firm dates soon if anyone wishes to join up or cares to meet at some way point. Thanks Capt.Bob

Hey Bob,

If you can't get the information you're looking for here, try over on Anything Sailing http://www.anything-sailing.com/index.php

Member T34C lives in the Chicago area, winters his boat at Sturgeon Bay and keeps his boat at Egg Harbor during sailing season.
Member SailChick20 lives in Viking territory now but is from Chicago and keeps her boat in the Sturgeon Bay area.

Both have been very helpful with Door County information. We'll be in the Door County area in mid-July.

Capt. Paul & Admiral Marilyn
Former 26M owners

Thanks all how do I get a message to sailchick or t34? I am not yet the best at using this site I have already placed AnythingSailing on my favorites you never know whats out there until you ask. Best to all Capt Bob.

slugbug wrote:Thanks all how do I get a message to sailchick or t34? I am not yet the best at using this site I have already placed AnythingSailing on my favorites you never know whats out there until you ask. Best to all Capt Bob.

You have to "join" the anything sailing forum, just as you did here. Once you have logged in to AS, you will find the"private message" button and you should be able to figure it out from there.

They also have a "Destinations & Routes" sub-forum where you can post the very same message there that you did here. I'm sure one, or both, will chime in as well as others.

Enjoy!

Would like to revive this thread from the spring... We will arrive in the Green Bay area tomorrow and we are thinking about launching in Sturgeon Bay and explore Door County from there... Did any of you make the trip already this summer? Please...Give Advice!

SILK

Nedmiller Hope you enjoy Door County. Best place to launch is Menomoni MI at the city marina, very inexpensive and you cazr rig your boat and park your car and trailer. SAil to Chamber island stay overnight then cruise the Door, FIsh Creek;Egg Harbor all very nice. You can stay at the state park and because of the Mac shallow draft you can get close to anchor. The waters are clear and many places to pull in. Hope you have agood time.

We did get up to Green Bay and spent five nights in Lake Michigan waters! This board went down before I could read your advice! We put in at Egg Harbor Marina--$10 charge to launch-no charge to pull out--store trailer and truck for free! We launched late in the day and there is a nice place to anchor right outside the marina, although not protected on all sides.
We sailed up Door County and spent all five nights at anchor--including one night in Nickolet Bay with severe thunderstorms! The Mac danced a bit in the strong winds but the Spade Anchor didn't give an inch. This was the same storm where the two racing sailboats were capsized and two sailors killed. They were in unprotected water.

This is a totally different sail than the one we did in Lake Superior (Apostles) a couple of years ago. There are lots of boats and a number of marinas to stay in if that is your thing. The seas were much calmer and it was was much warmer! In fact, this record heat is the reason we finally pulled out. Too much sun and heat in the afternoons.

We loved the Yacht Works Marina in Sister Bay--though we didn't spend the night. They do have the best place to buy boat stuff--better than most West Marines for range of supplies and much better prices. We bought some larger fenders there and got four fenders for what we would have only gotten three for at the West Marine in Sturgeon Bay. (Every time we pulled up to a dock, people helping us would ask, "Don't you have larger fenders?" After a while it got to me and the Admiral saw a chance for birthday presents and to restore my ego!)

Since it got so hot, we did something a bit different--on day 6 instead of staying in the water, we pulled the Mac out and took it to Peninsula State Park--which is a definite stop, although it's hard to get on land from the lake unless you have a dinghy. We parked it in the 'overflow parking' by the beach with some other boats and trailers and spent the day revisiting the places by truck that we had gone to by water! It was so fun and so interesting. Seeing a place from the road is such a different experience than visiting by water.

We did sail through "Death's Door" and into the Harbor Bay at Washington Island, but didn't stay. There are two marinas that sell gas and rent slips but we never did find any city docks that we could just tie up to and explore the island. We'll need some good advice on Washington Island if we make this trip again.

SILK