Capt. Kelly Gordon and her crew aboard the 75-Sunseeker M/Y Corporate Retreat had just come the long way around from Florida to Chicago. Thanks to COVID-19, closed borders and closed locks, the traditional run to the Great Lakes for a boat that size instead took two weeks around the tip of Florida, through the Gulf of Mexico and up the inland river system of America’s heartland.
The trip was full of emotions: the highs of a good crew that clicked, the pride of compliments and smiling faces at every port, the tension of navigating alongside enormous river barges, the stress of dodging floating debris in the swift spring current.
