by Roger LeLievre | April 4, 2026 | Boatnerd News
MEARS, MI – This brick-red lighthouse that shines on Lake Michigan’s sandy shoreline is about to get an upgrade. Little Sable Point Lighthouse, standing 115 feet tall at Silver Lake State Park near Mears, will soon have new tempered glass windows in its lantern room,...
by Roger LeLievre | April 4, 2026 | Boatnerd News
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – Extensive ice in the West Neebish Channel is impacting the Neebish Island Ferry service in Barbeau, Michigan. Unfavorable winds, combined with the backlog of ice upstream, have caused ice to become heavily packed throughout the river,...
by Roger LeLievre | April 4, 2026 | Boatnerd News
Lee A Tregurtha departed Duluth Friday for sea trials after having engine work done at Fraser Shipyards. Not far off the piers the laker became beset in thick ice and had to wait for USCGC Spar WLB-206 to arrive from Superior to cut a path out to open water. After a...
by Roger LeLievre | April 3, 2026 | Noteworthy Passages
James R. Barker made a rare trip to Conneaut, OH, Friday. After anchoring for weather Thursday, she pulled up to the dock early in the morning and began to unload her cargo of iron ore. Sebastian Dunn
by Roger LeLievre | April 3, 2026 | Boatnerd News
Fincantieri Marine Group, which operates three Great Lakes shipyards, and two other Great Lakes shipbuilders, Fraser Shipyards in Superior, Wis., and Donjon Marine in Erie, Pa., have established a collaborative framework aimed at bringing new shipbuilding programs and...
