Sailing Away.

There are people in this world who still know the art of curving a sail exactly so to catch the wind and pull a boat across the water. I’m not one of them, but I’m lucky enough to know a few who are. One fine week in late summer we went sailing.

The plan was to circumnavigate Isle Royale, in the far northern waters of Lake Superior. It’s big and it’s remote, a 45-mile-long island surrounded by 450 smaller bits of land and wave-splashed…