Kathryn Page Camp

As mentioned last week, we spent an extra night at Ludington, Michigan, during our 2011 sailing vacation because of the strong storms fo...

Freizeit ’s last sailing trip—and ours—came in 2011, when Roland and I sailed up the eastern coast of Lake Michigan. The trip had two pu...

Freizeit was a travelling vacation home, but it was never supposed to be a home at home. Then Hurricane Ike hit. By September 14, 200...

Some boaters terminate their North Channel trip at Little Current, and others go on to Georgian Bay. Although we would have liked to tra...

Now that we had a bigger boat, we were ready for another attempt at the North Channel. This time we made it, but we still had some unwan...

Most sailors dream about moving up to a bigger boat, and Roland and I were no exception. By August 2002, we had done our research and de...

Murphy’s law says that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. A good sailor tries to anticipate what can go wrong and prepare for it....

  Roland and I became boat owners in May 1992. After we looked at several used sailboats with my two requirements (an enclosed head and...

The “sail” that hooked us on sailing wasn’t a sail at all. It was a very long, windless day on Lake Superior with five adults and four c...

After 25 years of sailing, Roland and I are headed for dry dock. In other words, we are selling our sailboat with no plans to replace it...

What makes us wish for things that are beyond our means? I'm perfectly happy with our 34-foot sailboat. Except . . . I want a dedica...

Day is done, gone the sun, From the lake, from the hills, from the sky, All is well, God is nigh. Another sailing season is ov...

Okay, so I stole the title from Michigan's tourism ads. To ensure that the theft is legal, I'll make the following disclaimers: I a...

In former times, boaters relied on the wind to get them where they were going. Some of us still do. The sailboats were out in force on S...

I had a busy weekend, and it seemed to carry a message: Don't give up. Now, I'm not sure why that message came at this particular po...

After school let out on Friday, Roland met me at the marina for our last sail of the season. Fortunately, the weather cooperated. It was als...

The Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat race officially kicked off on Saturday. It sounds like fun, and after we bought our current boat in ...

On the shores of Lake Michigan, a buttercup cocks its head and listens to the whispering wind. High on the Indiana dunes, dry sand skips m...