What rhymes with ‘Kenosha’? I don’t know either but we found it to be a fun sailing destination. Let me tell you about our recent trip aboard our Hunter 30, ‘Tense Moments’. We left our home port of South Haven, Michigan on August 17, at 11:30 PM looking forward to an all night sail. The winds were light and variable so my wife and I had to motor sail almost all of the way to maintain about 5 knots. With the moon to our back, Mars to port, and the Northern Lights to starboard, we crossed the numerous shipping lanes, seeing only two distant freighters. By early afternoon on Monday, we were entering Southport Marina in Kenosha. It is a very well laid out and sheltered marina that is ‘sailboat friendly’, with floating docks. It is pretty much ‘no frills’ but you don’t need a pool or hot tub, just clean rest rooms, laundry, and gated security. The real treat is to walk around the town of Kenosha, where vast expanses of lakefront have been given over to parks; bike trails, pedestrian walks, children’s playground and places to fish. How about a two-mile vintage trolley ride for twenty-five cents? The trolley loops around the downtown area, connecting shopping, museums, restaurants, and the like. You can find lots of people walking around the harbor area, all very friendly. Kenosha offers several lighthouses, a few museums, numerous antique shops, and some great pubs. You can also board the METRA for a quick trip into Chicago or the Wisconsin Lines coach into Milwaukee. If you want a taste of local color, try having breakfast at Frank’s Diner, the oldest continually operating coach diner in the U.S. It was pulled to its downtown location about 1928 and has been serving up some pretty good food ever since. You will feel right at home, often not being able to tell the staff from the regular customers, who help themselves to the never-ending coffeepot. After a day trip to Milwaukee to visit the Milwaukee Art Museum, we sampled several different kinds of a local beverage that the Milwaukee natives are quite fond of; some sort of foamy amber colored refreshment made of various grains. By Friday, we were ready to hoist the sails and head east in the early morning. Leaving Kenosha in our trail, we beat a southeasterly course riding the tail end of a storm that had passed through the area. It was nice to shut the engine off after clearing the Southport breakwater, and not needing the engine again until we ‘threaded the needle’ upon entering the South Haven channel again that evening. After starting off with 5-7 foot rollers out of the Kenosha side of Lake Michigan, we settled down to a 6 knot run with the starboard rails down at a comfortable heel. Would we go back to Kenosha? You bet. Half the fun of sailing is just getting there, and we have many pictures of the area to lure us back. Hats off to the town of Kenosha, Wisconsin for giving us a comfortable port-o’-call, a fun place to shop, and a reason to return!