The Arbitrage sailboat stops at Beaver Island after the Chicago–Mackinac Race, 1988

Locator map: Saint James Harbor highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago — Took place at Saint James HarborLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

Event

Date: 1988-07
Kind: Transportation
Where: Saint James Harbor
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: maritimeshippingrecreationtransportationtourismcommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The 40-foot Jepsen sailboat The Arbitrage stopped at Beaver Island after the 1988 Chicago-to-Mackinac Race. The August report records its twelfth-place finish, 47-hour elapsed time, owners, and the reduced crew returning to Racine.

Evidence limits

The account is a brief newspaper arrival note, not an official race result or complete vessel registry.

Sources

The Arbitrage race report, Beaver Beacon, August 1988.
Reports the 40-foot, one-ton Jepsen sailboat The Arbitrage at Beaver Island after finishing 12th in the Chicago-to-Mackinac Race, with a 47-hour elapsed time and five crew members returning to Racine. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, August 1988, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held twenty-page August issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and preserves the vessel report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “The Arbitrage sailboat stops at Beaver Island after the Chicago–Mackinac Race, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-arbitrage-sailboat-arrival-1988/, accessed [date], citing The Arbitrage race report, Beaver Beacon, August 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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