My name is Tyler.
My wife and I bought our 38-200 "driftless" the year before COVID. We've extensively refit her and sailed three of the five Great Lakes on her.
I've been completely inactive from this forum for 2 years. While "offline" I did a lot of sailing though. And some boat projects, of course (matter of fact I have a new water heater arriving today). I also moved across my home state of Wisconsin, bought and sold a house, changed jobs, so I'm simply going to excuse myself as having "been busy". So, as way of reintroduction, I'll share a brief overview of the sailing parts from the last two years. I hope to elaborate on these more, at some length, in the future.
My wife and I joined the crew of Pelagic on a delivery from St. Anthony, Newfoundland to Thomaston, Maine. We had to hole up in Lake Bras d'Or Nova Scotia as Hurricane Lee fizzled out over us. We got the invite through my sailing mentor Chuck. He is one of the boat's original partners. He's currently sailing back from South Georgia Island on one of Skip Novak's new boats. He and Skip grew up sailing together. Occasionally Chuck jets of to Monaco to sail with his former racing crewmate Simon le Bon from Duran Duran (Chuck was not on that Fastnet though).
Anyway - here's Chuck and Mrs driftless in some rough weather in the Cabot Strait prior to the arrival of Hurricane Lee.
My wife is a great sailor and has the amazing trait of always being calm and pleaseant. We co-captain and are a great team most of the time.
Here's our Pelagic crew in some also nasty weather in the Gulf of St Lawrence.
After coming back from Maine Mrs. driftless got herself an awesome new job that required a move across the state, from southern to northern Wisconsin. She studies lakes, and there's a whole lotta lakes here "Up North". We took a litte time off between the jobs in order to move driftless from Milwaukee, WI on Lake Michigan to Bayfield, WI on Lake Superior.
Before setting out we decided we wanted a windlass. That was a week long project. It's been wonderful to have. We anchor out as much as we can now.
After having anchoring on it now about 50 times, I've been very pleased with my installation and it's performance.
Garden Island, Lake Michigan.
Sailed under "The Mighty Mac" a day before the first finisher of the Chicago-Mac race - the 105' Bruce King designed "Whitehawk". We watched her cross the line as we sailed away past Mackinaw Island.
Had so many amazing anchorages in the thousands of islands of Lake Huron's North Channel
We took our time, and spent 60 days living on the boat last summer. This summer we've primarily explored the Apostle Islands on weekend cruises. We also just returned from a 10-day circumnavigation of Isle Royale.
A "sea" cave in the Apsotle Islands
Sunrise in Hay Bay on Isle Royale
I look forward to reingaging with the the forums and all of you wonderful fellow Ericson owners.
Bon voyage!
My wife and I bought our 38-200 "driftless" the year before COVID. We've extensively refit her and sailed three of the five Great Lakes on her.
I've been completely inactive from this forum for 2 years. While "offline" I did a lot of sailing though. And some boat projects, of course (matter of fact I have a new water heater arriving today). I also moved across my home state of Wisconsin, bought and sold a house, changed jobs, so I'm simply going to excuse myself as having "been busy". So, as way of reintroduction, I'll share a brief overview of the sailing parts from the last two years. I hope to elaborate on these more, at some length, in the future.
My wife and I joined the crew of Pelagic on a delivery from St. Anthony, Newfoundland to Thomaston, Maine. We had to hole up in Lake Bras d'Or Nova Scotia as Hurricane Lee fizzled out over us. We got the invite through my sailing mentor Chuck. He is one of the boat's original partners. He's currently sailing back from South Georgia Island on one of Skip Novak's new boats. He and Skip grew up sailing together. Occasionally Chuck jets of to Monaco to sail with his former racing crewmate Simon le Bon from Duran Duran (Chuck was not on that Fastnet though).
Anyway - here's Chuck and Mrs driftless in some rough weather in the Cabot Strait prior to the arrival of Hurricane Lee.
My wife is a great sailor and has the amazing trait of always being calm and pleaseant. We co-captain and are a great team most of the time.
Here's our Pelagic crew in some also nasty weather in the Gulf of St Lawrence.
After coming back from Maine Mrs. driftless got herself an awesome new job that required a move across the state, from southern to northern Wisconsin. She studies lakes, and there's a whole lotta lakes here "Up North". We took a litte time off between the jobs in order to move driftless from Milwaukee, WI on Lake Michigan to Bayfield, WI on Lake Superior.
Before setting out we decided we wanted a windlass. That was a week long project. It's been wonderful to have. We anchor out as much as we can now.
After having anchoring on it now about 50 times, I've been very pleased with my installation and it's performance.
Garden Island, Lake Michigan.
Sailed under "The Mighty Mac" a day before the first finisher of the Chicago-Mac race - the 105' Bruce King designed "Whitehawk". We watched her cross the line as we sailed away past Mackinaw Island.
Had so many amazing anchorages in the thousands of islands of Lake Huron's North Channel
We took our time, and spent 60 days living on the boat last summer. This summer we've primarily explored the Apostle Islands on weekend cruises. We also just returned from a 10-day circumnavigation of Isle Royale.
A "sea" cave in the Apsotle Islands
Sunrise in Hay Bay on Isle Royale
I look forward to reingaging with the the forums and all of you wonderful fellow Ericson owners.
Bon voyage!
- Published Date
- Sep 18, 2025
