Lake Superior

“Take 2” to leave on our sailing trip was a success! After months of working on boat refit projects, a handful of shakedown trips, and a major oil leak just a few days ago, we were almost in disbelief that we were actually going to leave Bayfield.  “Here we go!”

After months of boat projects and a couple of shakedown trips, it was time to throw off the bowlines! We left Bayfield on Aug 1st with the destination of the North Channel.

Let’s go on another shakedown trip, this time with teens!  Similar and Different This shakedown trip was similar in some ways and different in other ways than our first one.  Both trips included bringing grandsons as crew. The last shakedown trip was with Isaac and Titus. This trip is with their older brothers, Ethan and

After months of working on boat projects, it was time for some shake-down trips in the Apostle Islands. Isaac and Titus, a couple of our grandsons, were happy to join us! During our crew briefing, we explained our motto as “safe, fun, teamwork”. The boys settled into life on a boat quickly and easily. Being

Family planned to come sailing for the weekend, but as we all know, “we can’t control the weather”. No problem, we’ll pivot and make this more of a retreat weekend to chill out and rest a little bit in Bayfield.

We’ve been on a merry-go-round of indecision for our next boat for too long.  And then it all happened quite quickly. We bought a Com-Pac 33′!