August 17 - Ludington

Yet another calm cruising day to Ludington. More of the sand dune shoreline along the way. We took the anchorage here as we really don't need marinas that often and we certainly have been using them a lot since entering the US waters.

Ludington is home to the last remaining coal fired steam ship on the Great Lakes. The SS Badger still does a daily run across the lake to Manitowoc Wisconsin. The ship performs a unique berthing maneuver where they drop their anchor in the middle of the bay to pivot around and back into the slip. It was quite the thing to watch.

Ludington is another very busy fishing town. The town launch slip has 8 ramps for launching boats and it was busy all day.