Sailing Beyond Lake Superior

Dreamboat Dursmirg tied to the Lonz Winery dock at Middle Bass Island in western Lake Erie

 The Lake Erie Islands opened the door to a totally new world and our adventure was just about to unfold.

 

A letter that Jane wrote her parents on September 18, 1972.

Dear Mom, Dad and Joel,

We are at Middle Bass Island, Ohio. tied up in front of Lonz Winery on Lake Erie. We got here yesterday afternoon from Detroit. We spent 4 days in Detroit, went to Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum, which were very interesting. Jon Moin’s brother Wilson took us all over the city and had us to his home 2 nights for dinner. Channel 4 TV in Detroit did a story on us and the newspaper wrote an article.

It looks like we will be tied up for a while because we are having a terrible storm…at least 50 knot winds, can hardly stand up outside. We were lucky that we got in two hours before the storm hit. I may have already mentioned it but we saw another Ferro-cement boat under construction in Sarnia, Ontario. We’ve sure met a lot of interesting people along the way. (End of excerpt from letter).

At Middle Bass Island Jane and I were given many bags of ripe apples by the residents because this was the apple season, and this year there was a bumper crop. Jane had no problem with all the apples and had a steady production of fresh apple pie coming out of her shipboard kitchen (galley). Of course we had ten times more than we could consume ourselves, but the pies were a huge hit everywhere we visited.

Read the rest of this fascinating true life story in Sailing Beyond Lake Superior: Travels ofDursmirg, available in paperback and digital editions worldwide.