Daniel DeWeese and Julie Thorndycraft on Gaviidae blog about the 2016 Wilderness Rally at http://gaviidaesails.com/ramblings/great-lakes-cruising-club-2016-wilde….
We want to congratulate Dan & Julie on being the winners of the 2016 Founders Award winners with their blog of their 2015 cruise. The blog will be published in an upcoming issue of the Lifeline.
Great Lakes Crusing Club Member Spotlight - Matthew Cook & Walt Grabowski GLCC members Matthew Cook and Walt Grabowski, are out on Lake Huron this month conducting an underwater inspection of the water intake. The sixteen foot wide, six mile long tunnel has a capacity of 400 million gallons a day, and was the site of one of the worst construction accidents in Michigan history. Click here to read more
This week's GLCC Facebook Page administrator's report noted that our GLCC FB page has now passed 500 likes, and one of the page's posts from last week has now reached over 3,700 viewers! The club's Facebook presence is positioned to help introduce our club to the broader boating community, hopefully attracting potential new GLCC members while complimenting the more club-specific content and information provided on the club's glcclub.com web site.Click here for more information and a link to the GLCC Facebook page.
The 2016 GLCC Rendezvous in Superior, Wisconsin, on western Lake Superior, wrapped up on Wednesday July 20th. What a fun-filled Rendezvous it was! For a recap of some of the Rendezvous events, including pictures of selected Rendezvous highlights, check out the several GLCC Facebook Page Rendezvous posts at https://www.facebook.com/glcclub/
04/27/2023 Corrected link to harbor report. JM
We are happy to announce 2 new Harbor Reports For Lake Michigan. In the Lake Michigan Overview section, you'll find report M-00 Lake Michigan Overview and M-00.1 Commnications and Weather - Crossing lake Michigan. The reports were written by Lou Bruska and Marilyn Kinsey with editing help from Jim Wooll. Marilyn was the sole author of M-00.1, we thank her for the report. These two reports were created with next year's Rendezvous in Sturgeon Bay in mind. Lou Bruska, Log Book Editor.
02/08/2022 Removed link to unavailable article. JM Fellow Great Lakes Cruising Club member Dennis Bailey of Drummond Island, Mich. NC-1 (link available to GLCC members), and owner of a TowBoatU.S. vessel was recently featured in an article in the BoatU.S. May 25, 2016 publication. It talks about how Dennis has been helping boaters since he was a child and now owns his families’ business; Drummond Island Yacht Haven. Please click here to read the article.
Bill Stover, fellow Great Lakes Cruising Club member and Deputy Port Captain for Honey Harbor, Ont. GB-25 (link available to GLCC members) recently had an article published in the South Bay Cove Marina’s spring 2016 newsletter, Sounds of South Bay. In his piece, Bill does a wonderful job promoting the Club. Please click here to read more.
Running a search on the last name "Rohde" via the Great Lakes Cruising Club homepage happens to bring up a lengthy list of hits for this prolific couple. These long time members surely have kicked up some dust! Now they’ve affected yet another organization with their presence in acquiring another dignified title. Check out this link to the May 2016 Seven Seas Cruising Association monthly Commodores’ Bulletin announcing GLCC Director Bill and Judy Rohde as newly-appointed SSCA Great Lakes Cruising Station Hosts (a similar function as GLCC Port Captains). Click here (GLCC members only) and find a dynamic bio on the duo — direct from Bill himself. Many congratulations Bill and Judy!
UPDATE: KILLARNEY MOUNTAIN LODGE UNDETERRED BY FIRE! Killarney Mountain Lodge, the planned site of the 2018 Rendezvous, is featured in Great Lakes Boating. Holden & Carey Rhodes, owners since 2015, are GLCC members as were previous owners, Maury & Annabelle East. Phase two of a three phase plan to extensively renovate the lodge has been completed. Included is a new, full service marina. Next time you are in Killarney, be sure to check out the new boating and lodge facilities. Hungry but don't want to get dressed for dinner, they will even deliver meals to your boat!
