Everyone who’s come along with us on our annual sailing trip in the Apostle Islands near Bayfield, Wis., has felt the same way. Not long after we’ve left the beautiful town of Bayfield behind, the ...

The boat is called Outrageous, and to my landlubber’s eye it lives up to the name. It’s like a 37-foot floating knife blade of metal and fiberglass. “This is a boy’s boat,” my friend Bob Deeg says ...

APOSTLE ISLANDS NATIONAL LAKESHORE, Wis. — The thunderstorm struck with a vengeance around 9:30 p.m. We were anchored in Stockton Island’s Quarry Bay in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, off the ...

In a voice that somehow evokes actor Michael Caine, Northern Breezes Sailing (northernbreezessailing.com) instructor Guy Wray helps me and fellow student Dave Cushman plot a course from our marina ...

BAYFIELD -- Brian Fehr hasn't missed a Bayfield Race Week sailing regatta on Lake Superior in 15 years, yet he isn't a sailor and he can't define "trimming jib" or "spinnakers." But when racing was ...

"Want to fish Lake Superior from a sailboat?" Attached to it was an itinerary for a sailing trip in August across Lake Superior. The journey was to begin in Bayfield, Wis., with a crossing of the Big ...

Our August weekend in Bayfield, Wis., began with an invitation in March. Friends of ours had won a silent-auction bid for a sailing excursion through the Apostle Islands. Were we on board with them?

As the Abbey Road and Zeeto sailed through the canal during the Parade of Sail, members of the Sea Scouts were part of the crew. Sea Scouts is a program of Scouting America, and Bayfield has a unit ...

Wisconsin is a state well worth exploring. It has a breathtaking natural landscape and more than 1,000 miles of shoreline along the Great Lakes and Mississippi River—ideal for kayaking, fishing, ...