The 2014 GLCC Spring Break, March 1-8, provided a change from the venues of the past few years by being a Caribbean Cruise aboard the 1,047-foot long Celebrity Reflection from Miami to San Juan, St. Thomas, and St. Martin. It proved to be a very welcome and pleasant adventure for the GLCC members and guests, who managed to escape the unusually severe winter of the Great Lakes region to attend the event.  To read the full story, please click on the headline above.

We'd like to introduce Dual Port Captain Donna Steffens who, alongside of her husband David, represents Port Superior/Pikes Bay, WI (S-192.5). Here's what Donna has to say about boating and her GLCC Port Captain duties:

I was introduced to boating 10 years ago when... Click here to read more!

I’m often asked, if I been to the North Channel. I say yes, and the next question is have I been to Baie Fine? Again, I answer in the affirmative. Even non-boaters are intrigued by the place. It’s been said the rocks don’t move. The trick is: to know where they are. The information in 1949 was a little sketchy, but thanks to hundreds, maybe thousands, of cruises by our members things are a little clearer now. The rocks and the Pool are still there, but our report makes it a little safer to venture in. Enjoy the look back in time to the Club’s 1949 report (Click here), and then check out the current report, NC-83, for the latest.

We'd like to take a moment to welcome Dennis (Denny) Dutcher as one of our newly appointed Port Captains! Denny hosts West Harbor, Catawba Island (E-16.8). Click here for a quick introduction to Denny and his wife Sharon...

Time lapse satellite imagery shows the Great Lakes icing over in one of the coldest winters in memory.

Have you ever had the time or the bird's eye view of a lake as it freezes? We all know it's been unusually cold this season. Click here to see what's been happening in our Great Lakes and read the article by Bryan Walsh from the Science & Space section in TIME's web magazine.

This anniversary issue has updated program information about the 2014 Rendezvous at Leamington, ON; many other summer events; updates from winter gatherings; boating information you can use in preparation for summer cruising; as well as boat show reports. Information & registration forms for upcoming events are available via the Events page. Click HERE to read the latest issue of the Lifeline.

We are pleased to introduce to you one of GLCC's newest Port Captains, Ed Mahoney for Rocky River, OH (E-11). Here's a brief introduction to get you acquainted! Click here to read on.

While the Great Lakes Cruising Club was founded at the Chicago Yacht Club in 1934, it always looked to the north as the rationale for its existence.  No place has exemplified that northerly gaze more that the cruising capitol of the North Channel, Little Current.  This month’s 1948 Harbor Report is a mere 3 pages and is nowhere near as extensive as our current report NC-17.  Please click Here to view the vintage report, and then go to NC-17 for the fully updated modern report.

Her Diamond, a 1991 Freedom 38 sailed by recent members Bob and Sheila Allenick, is the featured boat in the January, 2014 issue of Good Old Boat.  Currently they cruise the Great Lakes but hope to head to bigger waters down the East Coast and Caribbean when they retire.  If you have a subscription to GOB be sure to check out the article or pick up a copy.  They plan to be at the Leamington Rendezvous where they will be glad to show her off.

In this month’s installment of our look back in time, we’ll view not an expansion of facilities or services, but, sadly, the loss of a well known and once thriving facility. In Clapperton Harbour (NC-21.5) today stands the ruins of what was one of the North Channel’s mainstays -- the Harbour Island Yacht and Fishing Club. Our old Harbor Report on Clapperton Island is full of nostalgia and memories. The segment on communications is just one wonderful example of the changes we’ve witnessed.