Fast Passage to Duluth

This past summer, I helped run the Necessity, a SeaRay Fly 400 motorcruiser, from the Apostle Islands to Duluth. It was a very fast, fun, and comfortable passage in calm seas — and obviously much, much faster than Vicki and I can ever do the trip on our own boat, the SV Freelance. . We had timed our passage to beat a forecasted change in the weather. The high winds (gust to 30) did arrive as promised, but we had already made our destination with an hour to spare