Anyone Flying a Burgee ?

So you’re saying take a week… spend tons of money on diesel and wear and tear on your boat so you can ride a bike while avoiding horse shit so you can buy some secret special fudge and a pink horse burgee ?…. Why am I not feeling the ROI ?
 
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Not just any fudge, gotta be Joann’s double dark chocolate cherry walnut. :)
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So you’re saying take a week… spend tons of money on diesel and wear and tear on your boat so you can ride a bike while avoiding horse shit so you can buy some secret special fudge and a pink horse burgee ?…. Why am I not feeling the ROI ?

Nah Blue, just do this.

This place cost you money one way or the other.
 
So you’re saying take a week… spend tons of money on diesel and wear and tear on your boat so you can ride a bike while avoiding horse shit so you can buy some secret special fudge and a pink horse burgee ?…. Why am I not feeling the ROI ?
The ROI is the time I get to spend with my father when up in his neck of the woods. He's in Cheboygan. Also get to do some cool things while on the way up. Stopped at Presque Isle and did some ship wreck snorkeling, so that was cool.
Other choice is to go south and burn fuel to go to the Erie Islands, either way, gonna burn fuel. Not going to sit on the dock all summer.
 
So you’re saying take a week… spend tons of money on diesel and wear and tear on your boat so you can ride a bike while avoiding horse shit so you can buy some secret special fudge and a pink horse burgee ?…. Why am I not feeling the ROI ?
The ROI is the time I get to spend with my father when up in his neck of the woods. He's in Cheboygan. Also get to do some cool things while on the way up. Stopped at Presque Isle and did some ship wreck snorkeling, so that was cool.
Other choice is to go south and burn fuel to go to the Erie Islands, either way, gonna burn fuel. Not going to sit on the dock all summer.
 
So you’re saying take a week… spend tons of money on diesel and wear and tear on your boat so you can ride a bike while avoiding horse shit so you can buy some secret special fudge and a pink horse burgee ?…. Why am I not feeling the ROI ?
No, I’m saying take a month and smell the roses, hit the craft breweries/distilleries, ask where the locals eat and go to those places on your way up there to get your fudge and pink burgee.

Oh, and the board walk was dry this morning, so there!
:)
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No, I’m saying take a month and smell the roses, hit the craft breweries/distilleries, ask where the locals eat and go to those places on your way up there to get your fudge and pink burgee.

Oh, and the board walk was dry this morning, so there!
:)
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Slight tangent...how have your experiences been at Mack Island marina? It's a bucket list trip for me from the west side but I've heard some horror stories about the ferry boat wakes during the day.
 
The ferry wakes suck. Tie your boat up right and you’ll be fine.
The ferries are done by about 9 pm. I know people that stay in marinas at Ignace or Mack City and then day trip to the island on the ferries, and that’s ok, but for me, enjoying a bourbon on the boat and hearing nothing but the clip clop of the horse drawn carriages taking people back to their b&b’s with taps being played from the fort at 10 pm is worth being there.
Go either way.
 
The ferry wakes suck. Tie your boat up right and you’ll be fine.
The ferries are done by about 9 pm. I know people that stay in marinas at Ignace or Mack City and then day trip to the island on the ferries, and that’s ok, but for me, enjoying a bourbon on the boat and hearing nothing but the clip clop of the horse drawn carriages taking people back to their b&b’s with taps being played from the fort at 10 pm is worth being there.
Go either way.

Noted, still sounds awesome indeed. Nobody on my boat sleeps before 9PM in the summer at any rate...well...unless I have way too many of those bourbons. :)

I'll be there for a couple nights this coming October (via 4 wheels), my family loves the island...especially after the last ferry leaves.
 
It's been 30 or more years since I've been up there. Used to go for a week around the time of the Port Huron to Mackinaw sailboat race. Always stayed in the Grand Hotel. And yep, I remember walking around looking down in front of me....
 
It's been 30 or more years since I've been up there. Used to go for a week around the time of the Port Huron to Mackinaw sailboat race. Always stayed in the Grand Hotel. And yep, I remember walking around looking down in front of me....
Love the Grand Hotel. Like to go there, buy a couple grossly over priced drinks and sit on the porch while thinking about all of the dignitaries who have been there.
I have a picture somewhere of the “employee parking lot”. It’s a picture of about 500 bicycles. :)
 
So you’re saying take a week… spend tons of money on diesel and wear and tear on your boat so you can ride a bike while avoiding horse shit so you can buy some secret special fudge and a pink horse burgee ?…. Why am I not feeling the ROI ?

Maybe it is my imagination, but you seem to be getting angrier and more negative by the day. There is a Pink Pony in Miami, maybe that one will float your boat better.
 
@Blueone needs some spring weather and boat time. He’s getting a little cantankerous here and on a few other threads (like Tom Selleck??).

People that “get” Mackinac get it. People that don’t get it, well, move on. If it’s not for you, that’s great - it makes it less busy by a few people and that’s awesome. Stay away.

We usually spend between 10-15 days per season on the island. It is the only port we tie up at and feel instant slow-down and relaxation take over our lives. I grew up boating to the island, my kids grew up boating to the island. Now our grandkids are growing up boating to the island. We have made so many friends over the years that both live and work on the island.

Get to know the island, and it will lead you back time and time again. 95% of the islands features are only discovered by about 5% of its visitors. Most never get off Main Street and the hoards of day fudgies. They leave with a sense of never coming back, it was too packed, smelled like horse shit and piss, and was too expensive. Perfect, please don’t come back.

I suggest those that see it as a waste of fuel and week off work to get there, please enjoy all the beauty that Lake Erie’s polluted brown and crappy waters have to offer. For those that want to slow down, enjoy relaxing on the aft deck with a cocktail and a book, and slowly watch life go by, then by all means, the island is your place.

And as for the ferry surge, knowing how to tie your boat up is key. You will have no problems. The other thing I do is fill the fuel tanks completely at Mackinaw City before I head to the island. Sitting in the slip with 700 gallons of fuel makes for a heavy solid boat. And if it gets too bad, a quick hail to the ferry (by name) on 16 calling the captain out on his wake will slow them all down for a while. Those captains know that USCG Station St. Ignace monitors 16, so their vessel being called out by name tends to get their attention. There are also complaint forms in the harbor office that can be filed against the ferry(ies).
 



You can believe whatever you want, and even tell other people whatever you want, but I was just surprised at what you said. You must have a hidden agenda about Erie.

I have been all over the USA, and literally all over the world, and I have yet to find waters that are as clean and blue as Erie. Now maybe you haven't been there since the '60's, and if so I'll give you a pass.

And furthermore, I'm not tying to denigrate mackinak. It maybe as good as Erie, I just don't know.
 
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We fly two. The upper is our informal boating group’s flag. The lower is obvious. We just picked up one from The Soggy Dollar (yes, the original one) while on vacay so that may be replacing one of these this season.
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This is my 3rd year Gold and never got a t-shirt. Not a big deal since I certainly feel like my moneys worth but if I upgraded to platinum it would nice to get a burgee.

Personally I would like the tee shirt, never got one either. Had to buy the burgee with point's from BOE, didn't get that one either ...
 

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