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Posted on June 23, 2016
Heading north along the Michigan shore
One of the lovelier features of the Michigan shoreline is the abundance of inland lakes. A whole bunch of these lakes are linked to the Big Lake via canals, dug a century ago but now maintained by the …
Updated on June 22, 2016
How to have an excellent first overnight passage
At least, here’s how it went for us: Wait for a weather window. Wait and wait and wait. When people start to make fun of you a little for not going anywhere, wait some more. Head out in …
Posted on June 18, 2016
Escape from Milwaukee
Early yesterday morning over coffee, Michu and I realized that we were done being in Milwaukee. Pridefest was being succeeded by Polishfest, with an art fair on the other side of the harbor, and we just couldn’t take …
Posted on June 16, 2016
On “heading out”
We get asked this a bunch. “When are you heading out?” Sometimes, it’s just someone who wants to know when we’re leaving a slip, but I think most people mean it in the grand sense: “When are you …
Updated on June 13, 2016
Offski
We’re off. Empty versus full After a very intense few final days that saw us running between boat fixes, shuttling gear and packing up the house, we were finally able to get out of Madison around 2 on …