Steve Betow This is Me

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1. 1. FVTC - Machine Tool Technician - Meet the Staff

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   Published on: 6/23/2002   Last Visited: 6/23/2002

   Steve Betow

2. 2. Green Bay Press-Gazette -

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   Last Visited: 6/29/2005

   Betow still will celebrate 30th wedding anniversary in New York
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   Steve Betow of Appleton fell short of his goal to sail from Suamico to New York, but he'll keep a promise to his wife.
   
   Betow, who set sail June 6 in his 23-foot Westerly, had planned to meet his wife, Ginny, in New York during the Fourth of July weekend. He got as far as Beaver Island off lower Michigan.
   
   After an engine repair idled him in port for five days, he refigured the distance left to go and found he would arrive in New York well past the first week of July.
   
   "I decided the most important thing was for us to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary in New York catching a play on Broadway," said Betow.
   
   So he headed back to Suamico, met up with Ginny in Appleton and drove to New York by car.
   
   Betow, 57, a machine-tool instructor at Fox Valley Technical College, said it was a good adventure. He endured fog, rough waters, sunburn and his own cooking over nearly two weeks on Lake Michigan waters.
   
   The total trip would have been 2,400 miles, sailing across Lake Michigan, through the Straits of Mackinac to Lake Huron, through Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie, motoring through the Erie Canal lock system and down the Hudson River to New York.
   
   He plans to try it again in the future.
   
   "Maybe when I'm retired," he said.
   
   Here are excerpts from his log: