Last Chance ... A Two Year Journey

Leaving the Great Lakes for a Caribbean/Pacific adventure

26 June 2020 | Beaver Island
24 June 2020 | Mackinac Island
21 June 2020 | Off Racine
02 May 2020 | Larsen Marine
17 August 2019 | Half way across the lake and back
20 July 2019 | Sturgeon Bay, WI
15 July 2019 | Start of Hook Race off Racine, Wi
24 June 2019 | Mackinac Island
16 June 2019 | Waukegan Harbor
30 May 2019 | Somewhere off Waukegan
29 April 2019 | Waukegan, IL
14 February 2019 | George Town, Exumas
12 February 2019 | Great Galliot Cay
11 February 2019 | Sampson Cay, Exumas, Bahamas
09 February 2019 | Big Majors Spot
08 February 2019 | Near Midway Airport, Chicago
01 January 2019 | Larsen Marine
19 November 2018 | Hanover Park, IL

A walk in the ... graveyard

25 October 2017 | Beaufort, NC
Sunny and pleasant
Today was spent with Pete and Sue from Sasha. They are bringing their new-to-them boat back to Florida and were at many of the same places I was - like Rock Hall and the boat show. They went inside (ICW) to get here, but are going out in the ocean for their next leg.

This marina has some courtesy cars, so after lunch out, we ran our errands. First stop was refilling our propane tanks. I thought I had used a fair amount of propane running around with my brother at Sturgeon Bay and later at Beaver Island, but it turned out not really. The fill lasted mere seconds. Next was the grocery store, followed by a trip to ... no, not West Marine, Ace Hardware. Same idea, but cheaper.

We wanted to take the double decker bus tour around the town. The town's history goes back to the 1700's. As we walked up, the bus pulled away, and they only run twice a day. But the bus was coming back to the next corner as it made its way along its route, so we could stop the bus there and start our tour at that point. It was fun on the top deck, as long as we didn't forget to duck under the tree branches! After the tour, Pete wisely went back to work on the boat to prepare for its first ocean passage tomorrow. I stayed with Sue, who wanted to walk the graveyard (see how wise Pete was to go back to the boat). Actually, it was interesting and historical, helped along because they had an app for that. So we walked among the weathered tombstones searching for the next number on the tour (part of the fun) where we would listen to the audio giving the historical information about the person. It is an old graveyard dating back hundreds of years, hence its name, Old Burying Ground. Many graves were concrete or brick mounds, which was different.

Tomorrow the journey continues for both of us. My hatch covers arrive at 10, Sasha will leave in the morning (maybe for Charleston), and I will leave in the evening for Charleston, planning to arrive there Saturday morning.
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Vessel Name: Last Chance
Vessel Make/Model: Islander 36 (1979)
Hailing Port: Waukegan, Illinois
Last Chance's Photos - Main
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Created 1 February 2019
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Created 22 July 2018
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Created 8 April 2018
31 Photos
Created 22 January 2018
Traveling down the Chesapeake and the East Coast
53 Photos
Created 11 September 2017
Erie Canal and Hudson River
33 Photos
Created 18 August 2017
Great Lakes part of the journey.
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Created 15 July 2017
Boat prep and races prior to departure
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Created 14 June 2017