Speed Bump

Last year’s cruising with the family started with a trip up Lake Michigan’s Wisconsin coast bound for Manistique, a small town on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula aboard our Carver Voyager 570 Have Another Day. We had something very rare—three consecutive days of flat water on Lake Michigan—so we made the most of the conditions and ran all three days for a total of 300 nautical miles at 9 knots. We made it to Manistique without incident, but our luck changed on the cusp of entering its port.

I’ve been into Manistique’s little harbor a handful of times before and never had the slightest issue getting