We left Put In Bay on Wednesday, July 4th. We needed to cross about 25 miles open water on Lake Erie to the mouth of the Detroit River.
There was no wind....
The lake was dead flat calm....
It was stinkin' hot....
There were millions of flies....
We motored the whole damned way....

When we reached the Detroit River Light we altered course and began to get a breeze across the deck and the flies went away and life was good.

We then had to deal with the current, there is a LOT of water coming down the river, the entire upper Great Lakes drain down it, so the flow can be as much as 3 or 4 knots, and we needed to go upstream. The diesel chugged away faithfully and we slowly motored up the Livuingstone Channel to Bob-Lo Island. The marina was just fine and we settled in for a couple of days.