a final post from the 2022 Race to Mackinac
May 31, 2023 06:37:13 #
The Chicago Yacht Club's Race to Mackinac is one of the world’s largest annual offshore races, drawing top-notch sailing talent from around America and the world. Known as ‘The Mac’ to everyone in the region, the ultimate test of Great Lakes navigation starts each July just off Chicago’s Navy Pier. Passing through some of the most beautiful coastal waters in the world on the 333-statute mile (289 nautical miles) race route, the fleet faces the storms, reefs, calms and competition that truly make it "America’s Offshore Challenge".
2022 Boat Parade - Race to Mackinac by Paul Sager, on Flickr
The total surface area of the Great Lakes is approximately 94,250 square miles (244,100 km2) -- nearly the same size as the United Kingdom, and larger than the U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire combined.
Chico 2
The Great Lakes are estimated to have been formed at the end of the Last Glacial Period (the Wisconsin glaciation ended 10,000 to 12,000 years ago), when the Laurentide Ice Sheet receded. The retreat of the ice sheet left behind a large amount of meltwater (Lake Algonquin, Lake Chicago, Glacial Lake Iroquois, and Champlain Sea) that filled up the basins that the glaciers had carved, thus creating the Great Lakes as we know them today.
Seadog tours
The Great Lakes contain 21% of the world's surface fresh water. The lakes contain about 84% of the surface freshwater of North America. They have enough water to cover the 48 contiguous U.S. states to a uniform depth of 9.5 feet (2.9 m).
Phantom
Except when the water is frozen during winter, more than 100 lake freighters operate continuously on the Great Lakes, which remain a major water transport corridor for bulk goods. The Great Lakes Waterway connects all the lakes; the smaller Saint Lawrence Seaway connects the lakes to the Atlantic ocean. Some lake freighters are too large to use the Seaway and operate only on the Waterway and lakes.
Maggie Mae
Only four bridges are on the Great Lakes other than Lake Ontario because of the cost of building structures high enough for ships to pass under. The Blue Water Bridge is, for example, more than 150 feet high and more than a mile long. Major ports on the Great Lakes include Duluth-Superior, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Twin Harbors, Hamilton and Thunder Bay.
Abino
Dispersed throughout the Great Lakes are approximately 35,000 islands. The largest among them is Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, the largest island in any inland body of water in the world. The second-largest island is Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Both of these islands are large enough to contain multiple lakes themselves -- for instance, Manitoulin Island's Lake Manitou is the world's largest lake on a freshwater island. Some of these lakes even have their own islands, like Treasure Island in Lake Mindemoya in Manitoulin Island.
Spitfire
Lake Huron has the largest shore line length of any of the Great Lakes, counting its 30,000 islands. Huron is separated from Lake Michigan, which lies at the same level, by the 5-mile-wide (8.0 km), 20-fathom-deep (120 ft) Straits of Mackinac, making them hydrologically the same body of water. Aggregated, Lake Huron-Michigan is technically the world's largest freshwater lake.
Chicago Harbor Lighthouse
Started in 1898, the Race to Mackinac annually hosts over 3,000 sailors and covers 333 statute miles, starting from Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan and finishing at Mackinac Island, Michigan on Lake Huron.
Warrior Sailing
Images captured in this post come from a circa 2000 EOS 1v film camera and a circa 2015 EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS II, mounted to a tripod. The film used included expired color film, and fresh B&W film with and without color filters. Details of the exposure, focal length and film type are included for each image using the URL link of the titles to their host Flickr pages.
Tall Ship Windy
2022 Boat Parade - Race to Mackinac by Paul Sager, on Flickr
The total surface area of the Great Lakes is approximately 94,250 square miles (244,100 km2) -- nearly the same size as the United Kingdom, and larger than the U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire combined.
Chico 2
The Great Lakes are estimated to have been formed at the end of the Last Glacial Period (the Wisconsin glaciation ended 10,000 to 12,000 years ago), when the Laurentide Ice Sheet receded. The retreat of the ice sheet left behind a large amount of meltwater (Lake Algonquin, Lake Chicago, Glacial Lake Iroquois, and Champlain Sea) that filled up the basins that the glaciers had carved, thus creating the Great Lakes as we know them today.
Seadog tours
The Great Lakes contain 21% of the world's surface fresh water. The lakes contain about 84% of the surface freshwater of North America. They have enough water to cover the 48 contiguous U.S. states to a uniform depth of 9.5 feet (2.9 m).
Phantom
Except when the water is frozen during winter, more than 100 lake freighters operate continuously on the Great Lakes, which remain a major water transport corridor for bulk goods. The Great Lakes Waterway connects all the lakes; the smaller Saint Lawrence Seaway connects the lakes to the Atlantic ocean. Some lake freighters are too large to use the Seaway and operate only on the Waterway and lakes.
Maggie Mae
Only four bridges are on the Great Lakes other than Lake Ontario because of the cost of building structures high enough for ships to pass under. The Blue Water Bridge is, for example, more than 150 feet high and more than a mile long. Major ports on the Great Lakes include Duluth-Superior, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Twin Harbors, Hamilton and Thunder Bay.
Abino
Dispersed throughout the Great Lakes are approximately 35,000 islands. The largest among them is Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, the largest island in any inland body of water in the world. The second-largest island is Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Both of these islands are large enough to contain multiple lakes themselves -- for instance, Manitoulin Island's Lake Manitou is the world's largest lake on a freshwater island. Some of these lakes even have their own islands, like Treasure Island in Lake Mindemoya in Manitoulin Island.
Spitfire
Lake Huron has the largest shore line length of any of the Great Lakes, counting its 30,000 islands. Huron is separated from Lake Michigan, which lies at the same level, by the 5-mile-wide (8.0 km), 20-fathom-deep (120 ft) Straits of Mackinac, making them hydrologically the same body of water. Aggregated, Lake Huron-Michigan is technically the world's largest freshwater lake.
Chicago Harbor Lighthouse
Started in 1898, the Race to Mackinac annually hosts over 3,000 sailors and covers 333 statute miles, starting from Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan and finishing at Mackinac Island, Michigan on Lake Huron.
Warrior Sailing
Images captured in this post come from a circa 2000 EOS 1v film camera and a circa 2015 EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS II, mounted to a tripod. The film used included expired color film, and fresh B&W film with and without color filters. Details of the exposure, focal length and film type are included for each image using the URL link of the titles to their host Flickr pages.
Tall Ship Windy
May 31, 2023 06:51:03 #
DRM
Loc: NC
CHG_CANON wrote:
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Very interesting and informative. Thank you!
May 31, 2023 06:57:33 #
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May 31, 2023 07:54:19 #
Yes, interesting topic. Thanks for sharing.
DRM wrote:
Very interesting and informative. Thank you!
May 31, 2023 08:11:42 #
May 31, 2023 08:15:09 #
Thank you DRM, Tdearing, ELNikkor, junglejim1949, FastHorses, anotherview, John! Even after 4 posts, I've used only a faction of the images from this last July morning. I'm thinking to look at some comparison shots of different film types of the same subject / view, or maybe looking at B&W vs Color. Watch for those to appear in some of the specialty sections. Glad you enjoyed this post.
May 31, 2023 08:46:20 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
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These are all excellent shots Paul. I love the B&W especially. I don't do much B&W but have thought about starting to shoot more. Keep posting love your photos. Thanks BE SAFE!!
Tom
May 31, 2023 08:53:42 #
That was tremendously interesting Paul. Thanks for sharing that information
May 31, 2023 09:13:29 #
Great write-up and pics.
For anyone interested, if you ever get a chance to sail to and around the Apostle Islands near Red Cliff and Bayfield, WI, you experience glorious scenery, and might even think you are in a miniature Caribbean Sea. The Great Lakes are a true treasure.
For anyone interested, if you ever get a chance to sail to and around the Apostle Islands near Red Cliff and Bayfield, WI, you experience glorious scenery, and might even think you are in a miniature Caribbean Sea. The Great Lakes are a true treasure.
May 31, 2023 09:31:53 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
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This is an impressive research piece providing very interesting information. I am currently visiting in Michigan, living in California, so this was very timely for me. Thank you!
May 31, 2023 09:55:01 #
Great pictures.
I grew up next to Lake Michigan and you forgot to mention when you
jump into the lake you are still highest on the food chain. Not the case down here in
Florida when I go out swimming.
I grew up next to Lake Michigan and you forgot to mention when you
jump into the lake you are still highest on the food chain. Not the case down here in
Florida when I go out swimming.
May 31, 2023 10:27:33 #
tshift wrote:
These are all excellent shots Paul. I love the B&W especially. I don't do much B&W but have thought about starting to shoot more. Keep posting love your photos. Thanks BE SAFE!!
Tom
Tom
Thank you Tom! I've been shooting a lot of B&W the past few years, finding the stocks that work well with colored filters and / or deliver the contrast I'm looking for.
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