GLCC News

  • Visit Detour Channel, circa 1950.

    In this month's installment of our look back to the 1950’s, we visit the Western gateway to the North Channel.  Cruisers from the lower Lakes, would mostly likely pass this way as they proceed to their favorite cruising grounds, and it is telling.  The Great Lakes Cruising Club has, sur

  • The Straits of Mackinac Before The Bridge

    The year is 1952 and the Mackinac Bridge is still in the talking stages.  GLCC members, who passed through the Straits of Mackinac on their way to the North Channel and beyond, had a very different view.  En route, they probably visited one or more of these locations.

  • Michigan DNR announces new reservation system

    The Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) new Central Reservation System (CRS) for state parks and harbors is now open for reservations of all types at

  • Belle Isle in the Detroit River to become Michigan State Park

  • Do Great Lakes Boaters Need to Track Hurricanes??? ... You Bet They Do!

    Click HERE to read Great Lakes marine weather expert Mark Thornton's recently published review and analysis of Hurricane Sandy’s destruction of two Cleveland, Ohio, marinas. (Note - Mark recently joined the GLCCSchool faculty and will be teaching a class on Great Lakes thunderstorms this winter - see GLCCSchool for class details)