Northport to Leland

The call of nature woke me at 4am. The wind was down to nothing. I puttered around for a while until I thought everyone would want to be awake. I might have been a little early. I went around and knocked on windows so I could point out how the wind had gone down. By this time a breeze was coming up. Since it takes me a little longer to travel I decided to head out in the dark. After a little frantic position questioning we got straightened out and moving. The wind had climbed to 12 knots and the waves were up a bit but I couldn't see them so it wasn't bad. We turned north to get out of the bay as the sun was just starting to peak through. The wind had increased and the waves were up to around three to four coming from behind. We put up the sail and we scooted up the bay partly surfing and motor sailing in an attempt to get the trip to Leland in before noon or 1 o'clock when the wind was to pick up to gale force (over 38 knots per hour). Well the wind had come up to around 20 knots and when we made turn to go south to Leland it was coming right on the nose with ten miles to go at around 5 knots per hour sometimes dropping back to 2 knots when we caught a big wave that almost stopped us dead. It seemed scary for a while until we realized that we weren't going to sink, it didn't make sense to go back and we didn't really have anything else to do for the morning. We made the trip unscathed and lunged our way into this port at around noon. We were followed shortly by our friends in Selah. They had had their refrigerator perform an unscheduled clean out all over the floor and all the cargo on their rear deck was sliding in all different directions. It was nice to get in out of that and when the wind went up more in the afternoon and intermittent periods of sunshine, cloud and rain, sometimes driving, occurred it was nice to be tied up and watching from the docks. This place has just been updated to the tune of 3.5 million. Nice place! $41 for dockage. One small point of trivia; There are more pleasure craft in the state of Michigan than in any other state in the US