Transporting a Catalina 30
Marinette Wis. to Waukegan Ill.
5.28-29.08 – 27 hrs.
The bay is a washing machine.
The shipping channel is a street.
The open water is a well-spaced mantra
of following seas.
(The Hotness had been ruing barhopping.)
Hit 8.5 kts surfing.
Man o man o man was it cold.
Orange half moon arced past planets & stars
satellites & somewhere up there
a vessel, silver and weightless.
Seas softened as night gave herself away.
Man o man it was colder.
Waiting for luxury to wheel us home:
One down on ambient heat of Illinois earth,
the others winging pretzels at wildlife.
—Skipper Mary