![]() ![]() ![]() On Saturday, the now-92-year-old McCarthy will again compete in the 333-nautical mile course across Lake Michigan. The next morning, McCarthy hopped aboard a 36-foot boat and assisted in his first Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac, better known as The Mac. “Marshall Kissel asked, ‘Can you make it?’” McCarthy recalled. One late Friday evening in mid-July 1953, McCarthy received a call from a noted Chicago sailor. BURNHAM HARBOR - Gene McCarthy had a modicum of success sailing after college out of the Jackson Park Yacht Club. ![]()
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