Maggieiscrazy
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Does anyone do any boating around Isle Royale? I would like some info.
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i get out there but am no expert on the area. What do you need?Does anyone do any boating around Isle Royale? I would like some info.
What’s wrong with taking your 340 over to Isle Royale? I’m thinking about taking my 240da over.I have dreams of having a boat that'll take me to Isle Royale someday. It sounds like an amazing spot.
There are some folks that'll likely chime in on the navigation. My gut would say "yes, you're crazy not to have gps" on the area. Especially with water levels as high as they are. But I have no direct experience with that area.
Enjoy your trip if you do go and please share pictures!!!
What’s wrong with taking your 340 over to Isle Royale? I’m thinking about taking my 240da over.
There's definitely rocks to hit out there, no shortage of rocks, the whole place is rock. I'll tell you what I did prepping for my first trip out there.My wife wants to spend a week circumnavigating the island this summer. But I can’t get a map card for my gps for the area. I’ve heard a lot horror stories about people hitting rocks submerged just below the surface. Am I crazy going out there without the gps map?
Take a look at this. You can switch chart types down in the left corner. https://www.waterwayguide.com/explo...gitude=-89.24829483032227&zoom=13&mode=marinaSome of the crowd-sourced sonar maps available may have Isle Royale. Here's one that has covers bit of the southern tip of the island. https://www.genesismaps.com/SocialMap Just keep zooming in.
We would trailer to Grand Portage. About 24 miles from Windigo. Isle Royale shows up on my chart plotter it just doesn’t show lake contours. I figured with that and my nautical chart. I might be ok. And of course I never go out on Lake Superior without my copy of Bonnie Dahl’s Superior Way.There's definitely rocks to hit out there, no shortage of rocks, the whole place is rock. I'll tell you what I did prepping for my first trip out there.
I tried to get experienced guys that know the island to run with me, people that have been going out there in some cases for decades. Thing just never clicked and my wife and I finally just went alone.
It's an interesting place, the history, the geology, the moose/wolve relationship. I read about the island, laid out the trip, studied the charts, compared paper charts to gps charts. After telling others the what and where of my planned trip I asked for any tips they might have. This often resulted in the chart book being opened up and alot of pointing and finger tracing.
Even google maps is helpful in understanding how mother nature made that island. I could visually see why you can't just be cutting between islands any 'ol place. Those small islands are just the high points on the reefs for example.
I found a touring guide called The Superior Way to be extremely helpful. It has good detail on common anchorage locations and approaches to them, tips, sketches, detail on just about any place you're likely to go.
Can you boat around the island with just paper charts...sure you can...but I don't know if you can. I highly advise that you update your chartplotter, it'll make things so much easier but I still have paper charts and the Superior Way open on my dash so I can quickly refresh my memory if needed.
I'm curious how your going to get there. Where are you leaving from? That'd be quite a haul for a 240DA from Bayfield to Windigo, 35-50 miles out most the time for about 110 miles.
I see what you're saying now. I don't have sonar bottom charting either, just regular electronic charts with depth readings. In that respect you should be OK.We would trailer to Grand Portage. About 24 miles from Windigo. Isle Royale shows up on my chart plotter it just doesn’t show lake contours. I figured with that and my nautical chart. I might be ok. And of course I never go out on Lake Superior without my copy of Bonnie Dahl’s Superior Way.
Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t gps on an iPad or android require cell phone reception?I don't know anything about the area so my comment is more general in nature. If you have an iPad or android with GPS, you DO have gps charts for that area, just not on your chart plotter. Just need to download the appropriate apps and charts.
That said, I wouldn't move 5 feet off my dock without charts, else I would be crazy.
Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t gps on an iPad or android require cell phone reception?
Interesting. I can see a day when iPads will make chartplotters obsolete.Not sure on Android, but on iPad no. That said you do need an iPad that is cell "capable", although you don't have to be in cell range for the gps to work. This is because the GPS and the cell radio in an iPad are on the same chip.
Interesting. I can see a day when iPads will make chartplotters obsolete.