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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.