Friday, January 9, 2026
As winter wears on and boating season starts to peek around the corner, Great Lakes enthusiasts have plenty of chances to get inspired, educated, and geared up for 2026. From January through mid-March, regional boat shows bring together manufacturers, dealers, marine gear experts, and fellow boaters under one roof — the perfectMonday, September 8, 2025
Highfield Boats 2026 Dealer Meeting Highfield Boats, the leading Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) brand in the U.S., is heading to its 2026 Highfield Dealer/Media Days event on September 9-10 in Cadillac, Michigan, with 31% market share among its competitive set domestically. Highfield Boats is activelyWednesday, July 30, 2025
Light, Science and Better Fishing You may have heard of his other company, outdoors eyeglasses manufacturer RLVNT. Now enter Mad Scientist Tackle, a paradigm shifting company founded with the knowledge of a man steeped in the science of optics, as well as the bravery to challenge conventional lure-makingTuesday, July 29, 2025
Boaters on West Side of Lake of The Woods Now Have 24/7 Professional On-Water Help Available Straddling the U.S.-Canada border, Lake of the Woods is a vast expanse of pristine waters more than 70 miles wide with an incredible 65,000 miles of shoreline and nearly 15,000 islands. The sixth largest lake inFriday, June 13, 2025
Hometown Hero: Joel Ronning’s Catapult Wins 2025 J/70 U.S. National Championship on Lake Minnetonka After five races in a full range of breeze, Joel Ronning’s Catapult team won the 2025 J/70 U.S. National Championship on home waters in Wayzata, Minnesota. Ronning, sailing in a One-Pro configurationMonday, January 6, 2025
Minneapolis' Largest Boating Event Cruises into the Minneapolis Convention Center Jan. 23-26 Minneapolis’ largest and longest-running annual boating event is back! The Discover® Boating Minneapolis Boat Show, in partnership with Progressive®, is celebrating more than 50 years at the Minneapolis Convention Center fromThursday, September 28, 2023
A Fond du Lac Band member holds up a lake trout netted on Lake Superior in August. It was the band's first tribal netting in the big lake in more than 160 years. Contributed / Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa DULUTH — Members of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa have netted lake trout inTuesday, August 29, 2023
Duluth leaders are looking to better forecast rip current conditions, and have launched a water safety buoy off Park Point to do so. The Fire Department deployed the buoy about 1,000 meters off the shore. It reports data to the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS), and measures waves, wind, water temperature, and more. The informationTuesday, August 8, 2023
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 (Toledo, Ohio) – On Sunday, August 20, the National Museum of the Great Lakes welcomes the largest U.S. Academic Research Fleet vessel on the Great Lakes, the R/V Blue Heron. Operated by the Large Lakes Observatory at the University of Minnesota Duluth, the R/V Blue Heron is well-equipped for research andThursday, July 20, 2023
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials say the pandemic helped fuel a renewed interest in boating activity across the state. There is also concern about the growing size of watercraft and how larger waves affect swimmers and other non-boating water recreation. (Adobe Stock). So far this summer, Minnesota has seen a
