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    Anyone know a boat called the Phantom?

    She is a 40' Sea Ray. Home port on Lake Michigan but don't recall the town. Can't recall the owners names either but they are an older couple (like me) that we met every year in the North Channel. Really enjoyed them but one year they didn't come and of course haven't heard from them again. That...
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    Pictures of the North Channel and Collins Inlet.

    Here is a link to another site I posted several pictures of last years season in the area. http://www.cdnbaylinerownersclub.com/index.php/forum?func=view&catid=6&id=664#672 Its a small but growing site geared towards Canadian boaters. All are welcome. Pictures are easy to post there without...
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    Long Island Sound light house to be auctioned.

    http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucdsclnk?sl=BOSTN111004001 Doug
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    Good reason to be a Florida snowbird.

    http://rmirror.net/r/videos/comments/q5hu9/car_accident_nsfl/
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    Trailer your boat to the North Channel.

    Guys, if you have a trailer for your boat, you can safely cruise the North Channel and see all the points of interest. Not to say you can go everywhere every day because weather conditions will tell you when to move but the distance is short between safe anchorages and usually the mornings are...
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    Cruising the North Channel

    Anyone up for a discussion? http://continuouswave.com/north-channel/cruise.html We have been cruising the North Channel and upper Georgian Bay for 48 years and never tire of talking about it. Its an easy cruise for trailer boats also. Doug
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    Should I go? A life altering experience.

    A lesson story that forever changed my boating. I boat on the Great Lakes. Mostly Lake Huron even though I now live on Lake Superior. This happened in the mid 70's. We left Tobermory Ontario on a course for Saginaw Bay, our dock was at Bay Port, Michigan. We had waited for good weather as the...
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    Anchoring 101

    I wrote this 2 years ago for another site. Perhaps some will find it useful. Having spent more than 5 years of my life on the hook I thought I would start a discussion on anchoring and share some thoughts. It is to be taken as A way not THE way and are just for the most part, my views...
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    If anyone still uses Loran

    I just got this in an email from a Coastie friend. From: Ninth Coast Guard District LNM Notification Subject: SPECIAL NOTICE TERMINATION OF ALL U.S. LORAN-C SIGNALS SPECIAL NOTICE SUBJ: TERMINATION OF ALL U.S. LORAN-C SIGNALS 1. IAW THE 2010 DHS APPROPRIATIONS ACT, THE U.S. COAST GUARD...
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