Port Reports – June 13

Port Reports – June 13

Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Shortly after midnight Sunday morning, Lower Lakes Towing’s hybrid laker Manitoulin pulled away from BNSF Dock 5 in Superior, departing the Wisconsin side of the harbor at 00:35...

Today in Great Lakes History – June 13

On 13 June 2003, after completing her conversion from American to Canadian registry, Lower Lakes Towing’s newly-acquired MICHIPICOTEN, a.) ELTON HOYT 2ND, departed the Government dock at Sarnia, Ontario. First she went to the Shell Oil dock in Corunna, Ontario...
Boatnerd News – June 12

Boatnerd News – June 12

Rail & sail father & son photography team Born and raised in Duluth, photographer David Schauer recalls, “My childhood home was in the upper Endion neighborhood where I could see Lake Superior and watch boats coming and going from Duluth and Superior. That,...

Port Reports – June 12

Please send port reports to news@boatnerd.net. Duluth, MN – Superior, WI – Joshua Hebeisen Though Clyde S. VanEnkevort/Erie Trader were inbound at 07:30 with limestone for Graymont, Saturday’s main event took place 30 minutes later when Ocean Navigator paid her first...
Today in Great Lakes History – June 12

Today in Great Lakes History – June 12

“STUBBY”, the bow and stern sections of the STEWART J. CORT welded together, passed Port Colborne, Ontario on June 12, 1970, bound for Erie, Pennsylvania under her own power. STUBBY’s bow and stern sections were later separated at Erie Marine, Inc.,...