Now I'm really feeling sorry for myself, that you folks made it through the
Apostles, over many days, without mishap and apparently without shipping cold
water. I've been through there on 27s and 29s and had a lark but also was
pushed to my limit with wind and wave. I look back on the long weekend and
realize there was no way I could get away, so I have to let it go. But do it
again, and I'll have my 15 (Shenanigans) ready for the ride.
I think there was a 15 in the fleet -- how did that work out? If the 17s
were sheeting in for speed, it may have gotten lonely amongst the lesser LWLs
--
though the lower weight has always kept my 15 up on top and skimming along
just fine, especially against other boats whose skippers didn't know I was
"racing" them.
Those Vikings and Voyageurs must have been hardy folks. I'm still only
cautiously interested in being on Superior in a small vessel. But I'm also
within minutes' worth of a driveway where Gerry Speiss built Yankee Girl from
plywood, in his driveway, and sailed her to England, holding a small-vessel
record
for it, for a long time. So there are lots of lines drawn in the sand around
here, in Minnesota. At least when the sand isn't covered with ice. (Keeps
the riff-raff out.)
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