Day 23 - who is john galt?

We are tied up in McKinley Marina in slip E 43. There are thunder storms all around and soon to be on top of us. We watched the Milwaukee Yacht Club committee boat tow a line of seven small boats full of young sailors out into the main harbor. I hope we see them getting towed back in real soon.

This is the last night of our cruise. When it is over we will have been living on our boat for 24 days and cruised over 1,050 miles. We have been to 20 harbors and met many wonderful and friendly people. Sailors/boaters treat each other like family. Boaters always wave to one another boater as they pass.

We are running low on some supplies as we have timed our purchases well. The fuel price here is the lowest we have seen at $3.68 per gallon. We will fill our fuel tanks before we head out for Waukegan in the morning.

Continuing on the theme of unusual boat names the boat in front of us at the dock is named “Who is John Galt?” Who knows who is John Galt? I posted the answer after the photo.

Waukegan ( our home port ) is only 40 miles away. Will we be like a trail riding horse running for the barn and get back in less than two hours or take our time and enjoy our last few hours on the boat? Time will tell.

Photo of the boat name quiz.

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John Galt is a character in Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged (1957). Although he is not identified by name until the last third of the novel, he is the object of its often-repeated question “Who is John Galt?” and of the quest to discover the answer.
As the plot unfolds, Galt is acknowledged to be a philosopher and inventor; he believes in the power and glory of the human mind, and the right of the individual to use his/her mind solely for him/herself. He serves as a highly individualist counterpoint to the collectivist social and economic structure depicted in the novel, in which society is based on oppressive bureaucratic functionaries and a culture that embraces mediocrity in the name of egalitarianism, which the novel interprets as the end result of socialistic idealism.