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Milwaukee Beach Ambassadors Hope to Prevent Drownings
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As Covid restrictions lift, hoisted sails become more common too through the Milwaukee Sailing Center
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New ambassador program hopes to better inform beachgoers
Ambassador program being funded with grant from Wisconsin Sea Grant Share
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Ambassador program being funded with grant from Wisconsin Sea Grant Share The pandemic drew big crowds to McKinley Beach last summer, and many who visited were unfamiliar with the lake s power.Sadly, four people drowned in the water near McKinley in 2020, and now a new group is hoping to educate beachgoers in the name of safety. We have the long pier becomes a structural rip, it s called. It s the configuration of the beach, it s the configuration of the boulders, that produces a current that sweeps out along the structure and draws people out, said Lloyd Seawright, who trains lifeguards in Shorewood, Wisconsin, and spends lots of time in and around Lake Michigan.He says the structure of McKinley Beach and those dangerous rip currents can spell trouble for swimmers.
Milwaukee s sailing season kicks off with Veterans Park boat launch
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) Friday, May 7, was Big Boat Day in Milwaukee.
It s the start of the sailing season and the Milwaukee Community Sailing Center always starts it off with a boat launch.
More than two dozen boats set sail from docks at Veterans Park starting at 9 a.m. Friday morning with the help of a 20-ton crane.
Many of these boats were stored on the sailing center grounds through the winter.
The sailing center was open during the early part of the Covid pandemic last year, following CDC guideliens.
Now they re picking up where they left off.
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