The editors of Good Old Boat have been watching enviously from the sidelines as others have been celebrating the Sailstice for the past decade. It never quite worked out with our calendar and magazine production schedule. So we hired some help and this year we intend to do something to make up for lost time. This summer we will be taking our longest vacation ever . . . and it will start on June 21.
We'll be out for 12 weeks sailing the shores of Lake Superior in a counter-clockwise direction starting with the launch of our boat at Barker's Island Marina in Superior, Wisconsin, and ending there once more in mid-September. The nice thing about sailing the northern latitudes is that the days are particularly long. (Nights? We barely have 'em in the summer!) We'll start on the longest day of the year and take great joy in every day which follows, even if it's a bit shorter than the previous one. The coasts of Lake Superior have many wilderness areas sandwiched between infrequent small communities in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario. This is a true wilderness sailing experience and we're looking forward to it immensely!
Karen Larson and Jerry Powlas, founding editors of Good Old Boat magazine