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Solo Distance Racing on the Great Lakes

Source: It takes a special kind of sailor to solo distance race on the Great Lakes

Back in the 1970s Ted Turner famously retracted his description of Lake Michigan as a “mill pond” aft er finding himself caught up in one of the roughest Chicago-Mackinac races in decades— and in many ways solo distance racing on the lakes is

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