I use three sources for my weather forecasts before venturing onto the big lake. If two of the three look good then I go but......the last couple years the accuracy has really gotten much worse. I have been on Lake Erie for more than 50 yrs, in years gone by the wind and wave forecast was much more accurate than what they predict today. Obviously they fail to look out the window before giving the wind and wave forecast and rely on some machine on the other side of the country to tell them what is happening here. Not many years back, Bill Spencer was a fellow boater and his marine forecasts were quite good, but now that he no longer boats he has gotten as bad as all the others. It is just disappointing to plan a trip, buy gas and bait only to find it is much choppier than forecast then have to come back home.