Month: November 2022
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Ready, Set, Go!
After our summer of sailing around Lake Michigan we had a much better idea about what work needed to be done on the boat. We knew from the beginning that we needed to have the bottom repainted in a paint that was good for saltwater, and that we needed to do some work on the…
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Summer of Sailing Lake Michigan
Once Sail la Vie was behaving like a regular sailboat, we decided to take her on a shakedown cruise of lake Michigan before getting her ready for the 1300 mile journey to the Gulf of Mexico. Our plan was to head north from Racine, Wisconsin to Green Bay, cross the top of the lake, and…