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13-City Boat Tour Kicks Off Today, Highlighting Need to Restore Great Lakes

Coalition Calls for Presidential Candidates to Stand up for Great Lakes Restoration

BUFFALO, N.Y. (June 6, 2008)—The Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition is launching a 13-city boat tour today in Buffalo, N.Y., to highlight the need to restore the Great Lakes and to urge the U.S. Congress and presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama to act to restore the lakes.

“The boat tour underscores the importance of the Great Lakes to millions of people and the urgent need to restore them,” said Jeff Skelding, national campaign director of the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition, the boat tour’s sponsor. “To those seeking Read More » »




Heeling

This story comes to us from Debby in Saugatuck, Mich., who provides a memory from her childhood sailing with her uncle.

One of the most exhilarating feelings in life is leaning way over the side of a sailboat when the boat is heeling. You measure your weight in wind and wave as your body becomes part of the craft. You thrill to the precarious danger as you lock your feet under the opposite gunwale and let your whole body extend outside the boat, inches above the rushing water.

One summer when I was nine or ten, Uncle Olds, my father’s middle brother, Read More » »