The challenge of Pilots Cove

Sunday June 18 à Gaye, Grandma, and Grandpa left for home today, so the boy’s and myself decided to push off from the dock and head out to Pilots Cove. Pilots Cove is a small snail shaped anchorage area on the North East side of Drummond Island. We had read in the Great Lakes Cruising Clubs books that the enterance to the anchorage was a bit of a challenge. It was a 2 hour easy cruise down to Pilots Cove. You need to come in from the Northwest in order to miss a shoal that comes off shore. The inlet into the anchorage is right on shore and measures probably 20 feet across. We hugged the ‘point’ and slowly brought the boat into Pilots Cove. As we went through I was watching out the side of the pilothouse and noticed that there were huge rocks just off the starboard side of the boat and on the port side I could only see the shore. We just stayed calm and hoped that we would not hit any rocks. We made it back into this very small cove that allowed a great protected anchorage (chance of severe storms). It was a rainy day, so we took a small hike on the shore and the boy’s caught crawfish off the shore. It was a great anchorage and a great fathers day with my boys – even though we greatly missed having mom (Gaye) enjoy it with us.

Internet Update -- no Internet Access in Pilots Cove -- but we did have Verizon Cell phone coverage using the booster/antenna.