• Introduction
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• Planning
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• Canals
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• Lake Ontario
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• Lake Huron
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• Lake Superior
• introduction
• weather
• anchorages
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• Lake Erie
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• Epilogue

weather  

The wind stayed fairly light and soon cleared after noon and I set off again. The pilots say to expect fog one day in every three in July in Superior!

On the whole, I had very good weather. I did experience a few bouts of dense fog, usually in the morning till about 11 a.m.

I had one very rough day but decided to sail as it was a broad reach and I wanted to go a long way. It was a wild ride with waves twice filling my cockpit so I stayed below rather than risk getting washed out of the cockpit (even though I was wearing a harness).

It is in situations like this it is great to have a powerful mechanical self-steering gear which will hold the tiller precisely with 100+ lbs. of force. The Pandora rode this weather very well. I was using a tiny storm jib so there was just normal force on the rigging and the boat was doing 6+ knots.