Weekend Sailing the Great Lakes and Straits of Mackinac - a tale

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1:20 AM Tue 31 Aug 2010 GMT

'Morgan 32 - ideal for the passage' .

In all the cruising grounds of the world there are sailors doing what sailors do - in the free fresh wind, away from the cares of the daily grind, for a day or a decade. Here Tom Watts tells of a weekend escape, sailing on the fresh waters of the Great Lakes of America: Bob Ortlieb's invitation to me to sail the Great Lakes on his fabulous teak-trimmed Morgan was also extended to Jared Berousek, 30, and Matt Howell, 47, both of Royal Oak, a centre little north of Detroit in Michigan. We were to sail through Lake Huron before ...

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