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Welcome to this new site, established for our boat,Endeavour, a Beneteau 37, home port Chicago, Illinois. We bought our boat in June 2008 and since then have enjoyed sailing it on Lake Michigan with our son, Charlie, and (this coming season) our daughter, Maggie.
We are going to use this site as a travel journal, to share pictures and stories about our boat and our travels in Endeavour. We will also post directions to the boat, packing lists, and other items which might be helpful to guests on our boat.
Let us know what you think!
Matt & Emmy Gallagher
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 12:14PM We submitted our entry into the 104th Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac. We'll be starting in the cruising division on July 20, 2012. Follow us here, or on Facebook or Twitter, to follow along. During the race, Twitter will be the best way to follow us and the race. @Endeavoursails is our boat; the hashtag #CYCRTM will pull up most race-related tweets.
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 9:21AM Mac, Strictly Sail Friday, January 13, 2012 at 10:29AM 
Emmy and Matt are speaking at Karma Yacht Sales' Open House tomorrow, January 14, from 11:30 - 12:30 pm. Our topic is "Bucket List Update: Race to Mackinac from a Cruising Sailor's Point of View."
Details are here. The event is free; we encourage you to come out and talk sailing! The other speakers are Perry Lewis on sail trim and Roy Cohen on diesel engine maintenance.
For those of you who attended, our presentation handout and the safety & seamanship checklist are available for download; click on the links.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 9:36AM We learned a valuable lesson from our first Mac. With the best of intentions, we had a friend 'cater' the race for us, preparing frozen meals that we could reheat. In retrospect we underestimated the challenge of thawing these, preparing them, and cleaning up afterwards. Our friend Mark's solution is simple - Carl Buddig Sliced Meat.
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So if anyone out there is from Carl Buddig Co., we're interested in talking sponsorship. We imagine something like this:
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 12:48PM Emmy & Matt will be speaking at Karma Yacht Sales' open house on January 14, 2012. We'll be talking about a cruiser's perspective on doing your first Chicago Mac race.
Come down and join us! It's a fun event, and it's free.
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