The HMS Detroit, a replica of an 1812 war ship, will be leaving Amherstburg for Rhode Island, ending a 25-year plan to develop a nautical tourist attraction in SW Ontario. Read the story... And here's an account of the transit through Lake Ontario and the Erie Canal...
GLCC member John Holt has advised that both the Lexington and the Port Sanilac harbors on Lake Huron have been dredged. This has made both harbors sail-boat assessible.
Two Michigan men have been jailed in Sea Ray yacht fraud. Read the newspaper story...
A report in Science magazine two weeks ago, regarding "dead zones" in the oceans, has awakened new interest in the Great Lakes dead zones. Read an account here...
Research vessels on the Great Lakes are being converted to bio-fuels, as part of a "Green Ships Initiative." Read the story here... (The EPA's R/V Lake Guardian is shown in Muskegon, on Lake Michigan.)