Another day, another detour! We left Bayfield in nice winds and sailed briskly down to the south channel between Madeline and Long Islands. The wind pretty well died as we turned east through the channel so we were motorsailing when clouds began climbing the western horizon...Gadget-man (aka Colin) ducked below deck and used the XM satellite weather system to look at the latest Doppler radar images and saw a HUGE mass of thunderstorms heading our way and about 3 hours off. At that time, we were still 3 hours from Black River Harbor, our intended destination, so we diverted to Saxon Harbor, which was only about 2 hours away. We made the harbor and were delighted to find it had been dredged last summer so the advertised 5-foot depths along the transient docks (which would put us inches from grounding) are now 7 feet so we docked without incident. Of course, having done the prudent thing, the storms went north of us...we heard the Coast Guard calling for vessels to assist in the vicinity of its path though, so it must have been a doozy!