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Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Award Winners at the 60th Annual Antique Boat Show & Auction CLAYTON, New York (August 6, 2024) – The Antique Boat Museum is thrilled to announce the 60th Antique Boat Show winners! Congratulations to all the award recipients for their dedication to preserving our recreational boating history. Check out the winners below

by: Jess Gould

tags: Antique & Classic Boats, Awards, Great Lakes, Lake Life, Lake Ontario, Used Boats

Monday, August 12, 2024

Epic Mackinac Affairs It was a year for the record books and the ages for both of the Races to Mackinac Island as the 100th Anniversary for the Bayview Yacht Club’s Race from Port Huron and the Chicago Yacht Club’s 115th Race checked off all the boxes with a pair of exciting and suspenseful, action-packed sailboat races

by: Mark Reid

tags: Awards, Event, Feel Good Story, Great Lakes, Lake Huron, Sailing, Women In Boating

Monday, August 12, 2024

Latvian-Built Glacier 48 with Walk-Around Decks The new Glacier 48 from the Latvian builder Glacier Yachts is an intriguing new design from the offices of Guido de Groot. This all-aluminum build has a purposeful, expedition-yacht look from the bow. But as your eyes sweep aft you pick out a lot of subtle and interesting details

by: George Day

tags: Beyond the Great Lakes, Boat Design, Great Lakes, luxury, New Boat Models, Yacht

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Choosing Marine Radar for Your Boat, Part 1 If you’ve been wondering if you should add a radar system to your boat this year, the answer is probably “yes.” And if you’re wondering if it might be time to upgrade your existing radar, that’s probably also an affirmative, especially if your present

by: Frank Sargeant

tags: Accessories, Appliances, Boat GPS, Boat Technology, BoatTest, Electronics, Great Lakes, Navigation

Friday, August 9, 2024

Safe & Stylish Kid & Adult PFD Bundle Kids are naturally drawn to water, but few want to wear a PFD, so it's up to adults to set the example. Bombora makes this easy with the Family Bundle of PFDs. Featuring two of its lightweight inflatable Slim Belts and a pair of colorful Kid's Life Vests, it's easy to keep everyone safe

by: Martin Flory

tags: Accessories, Boating Safety, Gift Ideas, Great Lakes, Kids & Pets, safety

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Offshore 65/70: Highly-Customized Trawler The Offshore 65 CE can be built to the buyer’s specifications to a greater degree than we see with many other builders. For example, this 65-footer has a 19'6" (5.94 m) beam, which we often find on 90' (27.43 m) vessels. Customized details include headed decks in the heads, four

by: Offshore Yachts

tags: BoatTest, Great Lakes, luxury, New Boat Models, Yacht

Monday, November 20, 2023

The Sea Hunter III passenger ferry. Photo courtesy of Grand Portage Isle Royale Transportation Lines. Don Szczech can't count the number of times he's voyaged between Grand Portage and Isle Royale, but he knows it's well over 1,000. Over the decades, not much has changed about the journey between Minnesota's easternmost point

by: Christine Schuster, Bring Me The News

tags: Ferries, Great Lakes, Lake Superior

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Credit: Jon Monk The National Museum of the Great Lakes offers free admission Saturday to Monday. TOLEDO, Ohio — The National Museum of the Great Lakes announced an upcoming expansion as well as a change in leadership during their annual State of the Museum update, changes that come during the organization's "second wave

by: WTOL Newsroom

tags: Boat Museum, Company Expansions, Education, Great Lakes, History

Monday, November 13, 2023

One of NOAA's buoys on the water after deployment. NOAA GLERL As we head into winter, almost all of the buoys that have been bobbing in the Great Lakes during the warmer months have been retrieved and will stay out of the water until springtime. However, the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory is testing out new buoys

by: Alyssa Maciejewski, MLive

tags: Great Lakes, Lake Michigan, Weather

Monday, November 6, 2023

A sunset at Tobermory on the Bruce Peninsula. (National Conservancy of Canada photo) Federal money will help accelerate habitat protection near Bruce Peninsula National Park, one of 10 parks prioritized in a new program announced last week. The Landscape Resiliency Program includes $15 million from Parks Canada, which the

by: Scott Dunn, Shoreline Beacon

tags: Canada, Conservation, Environmental Impact, Great Lakes, Lake Huron

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