20 Sep 17

It was cool last night, so we slept well. The alarm went off at 07:00 and we leapt into action. The dock lines were let go by 08:30 and we motored into a SE 13 headwind, through the Chicago inner harbor and then on down to Calumet. We entered the Calumet River upbound at 11:00, passed under 2 RR lift bridges and two road bascule bridges, before turning into the Skyways Marine slip on the south side of the river, right beside a very busy railroad track and literally under the I-90 Chicago Skyway toll road; i.e., the noise level here has been about 85 decibels all day long. Hopefully, the train traffic will at least die down after dark. After a quick lunch, we set to work like field hands getting the mast ready to un-step tomorrow. We worked straight through without a break in the blazing 85 F heat until 17:00, when we gratefully collapsed into a couple of large G&Ts, which disappeared more or less instantly. But, we are ready to unstep the mast early tomorrow morning, so it was a good day’s work. Dinner aboard and early to bed.

41-43.034’N, 087-32.447’W; Log = 18.6, Sum (2017) = 2130.8 N-m