by import2 | June 14, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
On this day in 1985, Captain Edward Rogowski passed away. Captain Rogowski started sailing as a deckhand on the 514 foot JOHN SHERWIN in 1936. He retired in 1982 as the first captain of the largest freighter on the Great Lakes, the 1,013 foot PAUL R TREGURTHA. On this...
by import2 | June 13, 2021 | Port Report Archive
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by import2 | June 13, 2021 | Boatnerd Archives
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...
by import2 | June 12, 2021 | Boatnerd News
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Welcome to the long-awaited redesign of boatnerd3.jasonbowlerdesign.com/. Our crew hopes you enjoy the new look. We’d like to thank everyone who has been on board since the site was founded in the mid-1990s, especially those who have...
by import2 | June 11, 2021 | Port Report Archive
Port reports are compiled from volunteer reader observations and AIS transmissions. Please send information about vessel arrivals and departures from your port to news@boatnerd.net by 9 p.m. (Eastern) nightly for them to be included in the next day’s news....