- 31.8 miles
- 4 hours 35 minutes
- 6.9 mph average speed
- 5-12 mph winds
Harbor Beach has the world’s largest man-made freshwater harbor which was completed in 1883 and is one mile by three miles long.
This was to be our first night at anchor! It’s hard to believe that we have not yet anchored though there will be a couple of spots on the rivers where there will be no option but to anchor so we were happy to get some practice in before then. We successfully set the anchor (and the anchor alarm!) and stayed put for several hours. Misty and Darrel on Star Dust were anchored as well but their generator was not running properly and they decided to move to the marina around the bend so we opted to pull up the anchor and join them at the marina. While we did not gain the experience of an overnight at anchor, we were anchored for several hours!
Besides being home to the largest man-made freshwater harbor, Harbor Beach is also the birthplace and town where Frank Murphy lived. Frank Murphy was born in 1890 and was an attorney, a judge, Mayor of Detroit, US Governor General in the Philippines, Governor of Michigan, US Attorney General and Supreme Court Justice from 1940 until his death in 1949.
Birthplace of Frank Murphy on the right with his father’s law office added on to the left.
The “Big House” completed in 1873 and where the Murphy family later moved.
