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Sailing Lake Pepin: longtime sailor brings the world to Pepin
1 Nov 2020
Pepin County, News
PEPIN, Wis. (WEAU) -Charming river towns are superb gateways to beautiful Lake Pepin, home to exceptional outdoor and cultural activities. WEAU’s Phoebe Murray and photojournalist Duane Wolter spent an afternoon on the water with Captain Rob Buntz to show us why Lake Pepin is one of the two best lakes in the upper Midwest to sail.
“Lake Pepin behind me is a naturally occurring lake along the Mississippi river that straddles both the Minnesota and Wisconsin state border,” Buntz said.
Buntz is a longtime sailor, but now full time captain after moving to Pepin County six years ago with his wife.
“As you go over on the Wisconsin side, it' s a gradual up of the bottom into a sandy kind of beach mostly, over here on the Minnesota side what you see in the bluffs right there is exactly how it looks down below the water, it just goes straight down,” Buntz said. “The Misssissippi River and Pepin are pretty benign waters so there’s generally not much of a problem out here even when we’re sailing um ya know the boat heels over, but it’s never gonna tip over, so we don’t generally lose people (laughs) that way.”
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