We skip through our Summer travels as we deliver our boat from Mackinaw City, MI back to Muskegon. Share with you our travels to Electric Forest, America's C...

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last week on sailing tipsy gypsy we

showed you our shakedown cruise to

Mackinac Island and Alaska no islands we

enjoyed all that Mackinac had to offer

including biking and hiking all around

and through it it was an extremely cold

trip but also got to officially trial

run our sailboat through some of the

most beautiful freshwater islands we've

ever seen

okay we're new at making movies and at

times have been pretty slim when taking

footage along our travels the promise to

get better over time but instead of

wasting all the film over our summer

travels we've combined once of

adventuring into this one episode before

we arrive to the North Channel we know

you'll enjoy after travels Temecula

Island and the left no Islands we

started our journey to the spigen

Michigan

our first stop was to Beaver Island we

sail the majority of the way but turned

on our engine for a few hours to

compensate for the lack of wind dude was

muttering so much unless you know we

ended up running out of diesel right as

we approach to the channel we quickly

pulled up our sail and angered in their

beautiful st. James Harbor

Beaver Island is the largest island in

Lake Michigan and has a very interesting

history starting with its unique Morman

Kingdom in 1848 and then being replaced

with Irish immigration by the mid 80s it

has been known as America's Emerald Isle

and is now mostly known for its beaches

tourists and recreational harbours

we enjoyed the island for four days and

explored almost every part it was the

very beginning of their season and

provided only a few restaurants so we

cooked most our meals on the boat and

explored all the sights we could once we

rented their car from there we traveled

back to the mainland to one of our

favourite northern Michigan destinations

Petoskey is a coastal resort community

that we frequent each summer to enjoy

delicious beer relaxing views and great

shopping everything was in walking

distance from their Harbor and provided

us an exceptional Memorial Day weekend

filled with beautiful sunsets scenic dog

walks a daily softball tournament and

lazing around during the long weekend

we stayed at the Huskies city marina and

had exceptional service the entire time

from the past a snail to Charlie

we had a heck of a time coming into

Charlie boy including an accidental jibe

but it gave us a beautiful Anchorage for

a few days for vision and lay low before

our first remember joined us for the

long trek down the West Michigan

shoreline

from there we were off on our first

overnight passage

you're not allowed to anchor

so you can't do anything

nice how she'll is it

anger there anyway

yeah they don't get it Abby

and here's our beautiful sunset

I did for you now right in front of

north manitou island gosh

now the minutes

over to Whitehall Ronnie

enjoy today's

we stayed at the Whitehall municipal

marina and walked to its neighboring

City Montague to witness the world's

largest weather rain and a drink at

bardic Wells Michigan's premier maker of

honey wine Mead is a fermented honey and

is the original alcoholic beverage

predating both beer and wine all mead

has honey but some also have Prue herbs

or spices added in addition Steve has

the best mead we've tasted in an

exceptional selection of cisors as well

as a honey and hops collection he has

named after different clear cons or

clues we were invited out to his

property to let the dogs roam free and

witness some of the honeybees in action

it was awesome and I can't wait to go

back to restock during the holidays for

more information about his Mead or where

his meter he is located check out the

link above

we were now on the home stretch we made

it to muskie in for a few days

Muskegon Lake is tipsy gypsies home port

and currently where we keep our other

sailboat

from there we picked up some friends and

sailed across Lake Michigan to Chicago

for an America's Cup qualifying round of

races this race made history for

premiering in fresh water for the first

time although it was built up an

excitement there was a little wind and

less racing in the first day

the second day however was much windier

and provided us an actual race to watch

those modes smooth flip and watching

them fly across the forest is crazy

Artemis Racing took a weekend and

provided us an awesome weekend with

friends we went down for the weekend

with a small crew but ended up staying

in Chicago for a few extra days and an

ended up failing it back on our own we

of course had boat work to take care of

and enjoyed much of the city too

here we are in Chicago Illinois

we came here for the America's Cup and

now we're hanging out

in the city for a few days

maybe peers over there in the distance

we were hanging out there quite a bit

this week and then there's a bunch of

parks really close that we've been

enjoying taking the dogs and just

relaxing for a while we're headed to a

coffee shop to get some internet work

for a while and then walk around all

right so we just got back to our boat we

didn't eat up and there was another boat

circling it and it wasn't just another

bow it was another Nonsuch so we were

really excited to see that it was a

Nonsuch 30 and it was the other one that

we had heard that was in this mooring

field but we hadn't seen it yet and so

it was really cool to see them circling

and we just made conversation as they

were going around and me scrambling

saying hey hey so it was really cool to

see another one though it was the first

one that we've seen moving I guess and

now we're on our way to see flight of

the conchords we're waiting for a tender

because we're leaving literally right

after the show so they aren't getting

the dinghy all situated right over here

and the dogs are all patted and ready to

go as much as they can be for a 20 hour

sail boat ride and then yeah we're off

we're leaving Chicago it's been fun

we loved having the Sunday service at

Monroe Harbor basically all them on the

radio and they drop by the side your

boats pick you up so convenient a little

break

we also love having so many awesome

parts nearby enjoy daily blocks and

later Chicago we're leaving

probably not on our sailboat

strong winds in the right direction

allowed our sail to go up and for us to

head back to Muskegon

we're out on Lake Michigan leaving

Chicago we've got our second reef in

it's been around 30 knots since we have

left and we're well underway we're going

exactly the directions we need to right

around 6 knots so making a good time all

right we need to trim the sails but I'm

excited to drink that I say sails but we

really only have one sail he opened it

down there is being goofy after our

arrival back to Muskegon we prepped for

our journey back north and started

saying goodbyes to our friends during an

epic couple of weeks

first up those travels to electric

forest festival we've been attending

this event since 2008 it's weird a music

festival that showcases artwork music

jam bands electronic artists we love

this festival at me this time - my

friends Brown tickets go until the next

week's but we're still

we were not done saying goodbye to our

friends though the following weekend we

joined up again for our going-away party

to enjoy a beach day grilling out and of

course fireworks it was a blast but

would be the last time for a long time

that would be seeing our friends

we left for Whitehall the next evening

to catch a second night of fireworks

actually waking this up from our sleep

after that it was on to Frankfurt we

arrived to Frankfurt as the Sun was

setting and soon realized we had made it

to their Independence Day celebrations

it was the fourth of July after all more

fireworks for her to be enjoyed just the

fourth of July well you can see is

silhouettes of Theron and some boats and

the fireworks will be starting soon

who's our first time visiting Frankfurt

so we decided to Inc URF or a couple

days on there Betsy River we were

excited to enjoy a new brewery and check

out a few of the area's attraction then

one of our favorite times of the year

arrived it was trying to travel to me

to enjoy a couple of our favorite places

in the world fish town and Sleeping Bear

Dunes

Leland have an average ladder which was

a traditional Native American fishing

the settlement there was called machine

beeping meaning the place where canoes

run up into the river to land because

they have no harbour

thankfully they do have a higher end is

near by where there is family movie

campaign also nearby is this to be fair

Dunes National Lakeshore this park

covers 35 miles of Lake Michigan eastern

coastal as well as north and south into

Islands the terrain is absolutely

gorgeous it's been a tradition of

Darrin's family and I am happy to have

joined in the past couple of years

these camping trips as well as a new

hiking trips to both north and south

miniature Islands have brought their

tonight closer together and has build

our love of being outdoors even stronger

there would be more visits with family

before departing Michigan but this

family time was a very nice break and a

tradition Fair has been doing for the

past 19 years every year we have had so

much fun this year we were able to take

everyone out on a nice day sale and we

also got to meet some awesome new

friends after Leland we finally made our

way up to the North Channel at first we

thought we might skip it to start

heading to New York but we made time and

are so happy we did we had to take care

of a few obligations already scheduled

in the upcoming weeks so we made our

wait we're in the middle of Lake Huron

and fairness still getting internet

enough

to be able to work right now

which is awesome

we're starting to see land again though

almost a German island

we first enjoyed a secluded Anchorage on

Harbor Island

but with high winds and heavy rain

predicted we made plans to stay at from

in Islands Yacht Haven for a couple of

days we also took care of some issues

with our altimeter

all right so rainy out so now he found a

couple more leaks in the steering column

it's coming down we saw the clouds

coming so we rushed back to the boat

after being in town for a short while

what how's the fixing gun

they better be done I'm not going back

down you look a mess it says daddy

shower time so I didn't shower before it

I know that was smart

all right all right see this baby works

better is on to turn all the circuits

off turn off all the circuits like even

the plug the shore power and everything

everything is off there okay

read the voltage on the battery

battery voltage worked 1313 flat yep

okay ready

leave that leave the battery voltage

thing on I'm gonna turn it on you should

see it change okay

for 14 13 14

and it shuts off how fancy the regulator

and the exciter switched beautiful so

would I overcharge our batteries that we

let it run for oh good thing you did

change it then so you replace the

alternator successfully before but now

everything is properly fixed I hope so

straight-up sexy as a relief from an

island to sail across the border into

Canada and make our way through the

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