What’s Happening

• Balancing Escapsim & Reality07/28/2014 - 5:52 pm

  Sailing often conjures up thoughts of Jimmy Buffett, Margaritas, warm breezes, sunshine, no worries mon, stress-free and laid-back.  And in the charter business, we are on the other end of folks taking hard-earned vacation time and spending hard-earned money to forget about the realities of everyday life for a while. And we take that serious…that […]

• Great Lakes Sailing Co. Gear06/26/2014 - 2:33 pm

  If you have ever found yourself wondering how you can get your hands on some sweet Great Lakes Sailing Co. gear, or pick up your new “Yellow Cap”…well now you can thanks to the magic of the world wide web. We’ve got all our gear available for sale right here on the shiny new Great […]

• An Unsalted Island Journey05/21/2014 - 6:17 pm

  Last summer, Marianne Lee and her husband Mike Lee, traveled along during our annual Unsalted Island Hopping event. You can read a great article written by Mike, accompanied by beautiful photos from Marianne, in June’s issue of “Traverse the Magazine”. Here’s an excerpt: “The idea to island hop was the brainstorm of Dave Conrad and his […]

• “Learn How to Sail”05/16/2014 - 5:25 pm

  I remember walking back from the dock on Houghton Lake to my dad’s cabin when I stumbled across a small sailboat for sale in a neighbor’s front yard.  I recall thinking how cool it would be to actually know how to sail it.  The Jimmy Buffett in me had this idea of what sailing must be like.  Escape […]