August 17 2013
It was just too nice not to be out on Lake Michigan today-80 degrees, sunny and a light (10 knot) southerly breeze which means no big waves either. Since my wife is out of town and I didn't get any takers on a sail, I decided to head out single handed. I left the Milwaukee harbor at 1230 right behind the high speed ferry to Michigan and went right into an upwind tack-- the sails were set so perfectly the tiller even stayed centered up! Not long after I left the harbor, a bat, who must have spent the night in my mast, appeared and began flying wildly around the boat. He settled in on the mainsail and finally crawled back into the mast somehow. The photos of him are shown below. After a few hours of long tacks, and out of sight of land, I decided to put up the spinnaker and had a great ride back. Flying a spinnaker single handed is quite a chore but it's well worth the effort-
It was just too nice not to be out on Lake Michigan today-80 degrees, sunny and a light (10 knot) southerly breeze which means no big waves either. Since my wife is out of town and I didn't get any takers on a sail, I decided to head out single handed. I left the Milwaukee harbor at 1230 right behind the high speed ferry to Michigan and went right into an upwind tack-- the sails were set so perfectly the tiller even stayed centered up! Not long after I left the harbor, a bat, who must have spent the night in my mast, appeared and began flying wildly around the boat. He settled in on the mainsail and finally crawled back into the mast somehow. The photos of him are shown below. After a few hours of long tacks, and out of sight of land, I decided to put up the spinnaker and had a great ride back. Flying a spinnaker single handed is quite a chore but it's well worth the effort-
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