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Lake Michigan Devours Its Wounded: Boats and Sailors Cruising Western Lake Superior Minneapolis & Strictly Sail Shows Boatspeed IQ Test Volume XVIII No. 10 Dec 2007 Lake Michigan Devours Its Wounded: Boats and Sailors Cruising Western Lake Superior Minneapolis & Strictly Sail Shows Boatspeed IQ Test Over 500 New and Used Boats hicag r, C o, ie IL P y v a N 20 08 Come Sail Away! Strictly Sail® Chicago January 31–February 3, 2008 • Navy Pier, Chicago The Midwest’s only all-sail boat show! Skip the lines! For advance tickets and show details visit StrictlySailChicago.com or call 800.817.7245 Northland Yachts Celebrating 34 years of serving the sailing community. 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A 35-foot sailboat experi- Departments enced a worse fate off Calumet Harbor, Chicago in late October...three sailors died. 10 Excerpt from Adventure Bound: A Father Photo: Tom Rau/Boat Smart. Page 8. and Daughter Circumnavigate the Greatest Lake in the World - Early Adventures in UP 28 by Carl Behrend 12 Boatspeed IQ Test by David Dellenbaugh 15 Gift Products 16 Sailing News: New Bavaria 31, Boat Show 17 Calendar of Events 18 Brokerage Multi-list New & Used Boats 22 The Waterfront: Classified And Small Display Ads 24 Advertiser’s Index 25 Subscriptions: Don’t Miss Another Issue! Split Rock Lighthouse. Page 28. The Cover 26 On the cover: Hwy 13, Bayfield, Wisconsin, “Pikes Bay-View” At right: “Lake Superior Sunset” Little Sand Bay Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Wisconsin. Page 26. 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Thom Burns, [email protected] Managing Editor Alan Kretzschmar Contributing Live Aboard Editor Barb Theisen Contributing Editor Michele Pufahl Contributing Editor Capt. Steve Burns Art Director Alan Kretzschmar Contributors Carl Behrend, Thom Burns, David Dellenbaugh, Tom Embertson, Sam Huonder, Alan Kretzschmar, Alexis Olson, Michele Pufahl, Tom Rau. Northern Breezes, Inc. 3949 Winnetka Ave. N. Minneapolis, MN 55427 763.542.9707 Fax 763.542.8998 [email protected] Visit Northern Breezes Online at www.sailingbreezes.com Northern Breezes is published ten times annu- ally. All contents are copyright © 2007 by Northern Breezes, Inc. Reproduction of any part or whole of this publication in any form by mechanical or electronic means, including information retrieval is prohibited, except by consent of the publisher. Visit Northern Breezes Online @ www.sailingbreezes.com - Dec 2007 7 Lake Michigan Continues to Devour its Wounded by Tom Rau uring the spring of 2001, I wrote a Dcolumn about a life-saving rescue by a Holland Coast Guard station crew off the waters of Saugatuck, Michigan. The Coast Guard rescuers battled eight-foot seas as they pulled four crewmen off a floundering 34-foot sail- boat just before gale-force winds drove the hapless craft ashore. I called the column Lake Michigan devours its wounded, which would later become the title of my book. In the book, The Boat Smart Chronicles, Lake Michigan Devours Its Wounded, I address just how diffi- In July 2007 a Station Manistee boatcrew pulled three sailors off a 40- cult near shore rescues can be, espe- foot sailboat moments before it sank in eight-foot seas at the mouth of cially those involving sailboats. Their the Portage Lake entrance, Lake Michigan. A 35-foot sailboat small auxiliary engines combined experienced a worse fate off Calumet Harbor, Chicago in late October with hull displacement forces can find resulting in the deaths of three sailors. a sailboat at a huge disadvantage in Photo, Tom Rau/Boat Smart. heavy seas near shore. The heavy weather message water”, said Foy, who held station par- This proved to be the case in a would stand down the Station allel to the breakwater. A twelve-foot recent sailboat mishap on Lake Calumet’s 41-foot rescue boat for all wave slammed into the portside of the Michigan. This time, however, rather underway operations except urgent 26,000- pound rescue boat, nearly than four sailors being saved, three search and rescue (SAR). The heavy dumping it onto the breakwater. A fate died. weather limitations for the station’s that had left the 35-foot sailboat in On October 26, 2007, at 5;35 p.m. 41-foot rescue boat are eight foot seas. splinters “It was just too dangerous to a 35-foot sailboat departed Chicago’s But being an urgent SAR, the Coast hold station broadside to the seas downtown Columbia Yacht Club with Guard launched not only the 41-footer while his crew attempted to retrieve four crewmen aboard.
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