Back to St. Ignace – July 22, 2010
We left the group around 7:30am to start making our way to Drummond Island (customs check-in for US), and then continuing on to St. Ignace. Scot’s weather report showed that seas would be picking up, so we wanted to get the best water we could be leaving early. Once we rounded the island, the seas were a little more than we expected – about 3-4 feet. The weather report indicated less than 2 ft. We found a speed that put us at a comfortable ride and headed for customs check-in in Drummond. We actually ran into a cold front, that delivered calm seas and fog! I texted back to the group the water conditions so that they could make arrangements for their next anchorage based on what we were experiencing.
Getting to Drummond definitely involves skill. Everything is marked – EVERYTHING. So, it was a little challenging figuring out which markers were for the check-in. We safely navigated through the channels and got to the check-in post. A homeland security officer interviewed us, we paid our re-entry fee of $27.50 and we were on our way to St. Ignace. Drummond is very insignificant, and we were happy to be on our way.
We traveled about 125 miles from Crocker to St. Ignace. After the original seas of 3-4 ft, we were blessed with flat seas all the way to St. Ignace. We toyed with skipping St. Ignace and heading for Charlesvoix, but when we looked at weather radar, all sense came back to us and we pulled in to St. Ignace – there was a huge storm coming up the lake. Which meant, we would most likely be in St. Ignace tomorrow too.
