Days 49 & 50 - in New Buffalo - August 24-25, 2011

Due to wave conditions on Lake Michigan we spent two more nights in New Buffalo.  The waves on Lake Michigan have been in the 3 to 6 foot range these last two days.  We often talk about the fact that different types of boats (power versus sail) are better in different conditions.  Perfect sailing conditions are not necessarily perfect conditions for being in a power boat and these past two days have been good sailing weather, not good power boating weather.  But don’t take that to mean we are unhappy with Boreas because that is very far from the truth – we just aren’t always used to the weather conditions we can and can’t travel in.

New Buffalo boasts the largest number of slips on the western coastline of Lake Michigan – over 1,100 slips!  We have taken dinghy rides the last two evenings to check out all the slips and they are right, there are a lot of them here.  Although this wouldn’t be our first choice for where to keep a boat for the summer, it is very convenient for people living in the Chicago area as well as those in northern Indiana and southern Michigan. 

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some of the many slips in New Buffalo

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water cascading over the breakwall at the entrance to the
New Buffalo harbor