Port Report – September 1, 2025

Port Report – September 1, 2025

Port and vessel activity for Sunday August 31.  Port reports done by Tom Geiger unless otherwise noted. Please send future port reports and pictures to news@boatnerd.net You can Now visit Matt Miner’s Saltie page at ...

Today in Great Lakes History – September 1

1854 1854:   ABIAH (two-masted wooden schooner/brig; 134 feet; 353 tons; built in 1848 at Irving, NY) was sailing light from Chicago, IL, to Oconto, WI, when she capsized and sank in a squall about 10 miles off Sheboygan, WI. The schooner L. LUDDINGTON rescued her...

Port Report – August 31, 2025

Port and vessel activity for Saturday August 30.  Port reports done by Tom Geiger unless otherwise noted. Please send future port reports and pictures to news@boatnerd.net You can Now visit Matt Miner’s Saltie page at ...
Today in Great Lakes History – August 31

Today in Great Lakes History – August 31

1852 1852:   The U.S. Congress passed an act requiring the president to appoint three officers from the Navy, three engineers from the Army, and two civilian scientists to constitute the new Lighthouse Board. The Bureau of Lighthouses succeeded the Lighthouse Board in...

Boatnerd News – August 30, 2025

BBC Tokyo heads for Great Lakes on maiden voyage BBC Tokyo arrived at Montreal Friday morning for a stopover on its maiden voyage. She is headed to Erie, PA, with wind turbine components from Tuticorin, India where it left 37 days ago. René Beauchamp  Sailors sorely...