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David T – Sounds like you had a pretty impressive window of opportunity earlier this year. Did the weather kick up on the return? Wondering why you were sore if it was smooth enough to sit in front reading a book. That would have been a surreal moment to pass you with the boat on autopilot and the captain lounging in front with a book on his lap!

“Once Upon an Isle” was a great read and a very thoughtful suggestion for reading. I thoroughly enjoyed my copy and have given it a place of honor on my bookshelf along with similar types of books on the Great Lakes, including Mackinac Island, the Legend of the Sleeping Bears, and other favorites that were both well written and elaborately illustrated.

I’m also enjoying a copy of “Writing Lake Superior” by Peter Unwin. This book has limited availability – it is from Penguin Press (Canadian) and was pretty tough to locate a copy (I eventually found it at a bookseller in Manhattan on a business trip!). I’ve stopped reading it for now, in hopes that I can read and finish it on the Island by lantern…I can’t think of a better way to finish this fine book about the Lake Superior region.

I’ve been tracking my fuel economy this year and the conditions in which I encountered what economy. I still need to calculate Saturday’s consumption in square 4-6 footers on Lake Erie (I fried my Garmin AC/serial adapter so I can’t currently download to my computer to calculate economy)…but I’ve averaged around 4.2 MPG in much mixed running. With the addition of a 27 gallon Tempo tank, I should have about 351 miles of total range (conservative estimate). That should be more than enough to get me by with perhaps just a splash of fuel on the Island to get home.

Now…to convince Pat to join me and to find a distributor of dry ice…..

Dave