This presentation documents Judith, Aubrey, and Aaron's 4200 NM Go Home Passage north from El Salvador to Lake Huron. The trip was complicated by heavy weather, engine breakdowns, a 2 1/2 year delay due to COVID, and a problem-plagued land delivery from northern Mexico to Chicago. However, the 1978 Ontario 32 is now on the hard at the Millard’s home, the North Channel Yacht Club, on the north shore of Lake Huron above Manitoulin Island, The trip marks an end to their retirement odyssey starting in 1998, and ending this fall of 2022. The presentation covers the 2100 mile passage from El Salvador to Mexico, the shipping arrangements for a 2000 mile trip to Chicago, and the 400 mile passage up Lake Michigan to Lake Huron. About Aubrey Millard
Aubrey Millard is a retired Royal Canadian Navy officer and Clearance Diving Officer as well as a retired teacher. He is a Past Commodore of the Toronto Hydroplane and Sailing Club, and currently a member of the North Channel Yacht Club on the north shore of Lake Huron. He has his skipper's and instructor's certificates from the Canadian Yachting Association, and the British Kiel Yacht Club. After awarded the prestigious Bayfield Award with the Great Lakes Cruising Club for sailing over 5,000 NM throughout all the Great Lakes, he and his wife Judy have been full time liveaboards for 20 years on Veleda IV, their 1978 Ontario 32, having sailed the east and west coasts of North America as well as the Mediterranean, North and Black Seas
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