The 1884 wreck of the J.S. Seaverns has been located near Michipicoten Harbor along the remote Canadian Superior shore. A team of divers including Ken Merriman, recent speaker at the 2015 Lake Superior Dinner meeting, found the wreck and captured the stunning images and video in this article. 

     Andy has been sailing since summer camp back in the 1960s. In the 1990s he started sailing keel boats out of Bayfield on the east side of Lake Huron and has spent many summer weeks in and around Tobermory and in the North Channel. Several years ago he and Jann went to the dark side and became power boat cruisers, and relocated to Port Lambton. Please click here to read more!

The Fall 2016 issue waves goodbye to summer with several wrap-up articles on the festivities held in many picturesque locations throughout the Great Lakes. GLCC Members can also say hello to fall by enjoying these up coming activities; the Lake Erie Regional Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio also the Great Lakes Cruising Club and Great Lakes Foundation Annual General Membership Meetings to be held in Toledo, Ohio, so be sure to read about these events. Many members enjoyed GLCC’s annual Rendezvous in Duluth-Superior so we’ve included a yearbook-style spread of photos shot by our members and a nice read about all the happenings that went on. Click here to read further.

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.

As the boating season comes to a close, your GLCC office is also closing out the 2016 fiscal year as of 9/30. We are asking that members and significant others please login to the Great Lakes Cruising Club website and update or confirm their profile information by 8/31/2016. This will insure that we have current information for your 2017 membership dues renewal forms, your 2017 membership directory, the 2017 GLCC membership cards and any future mailings. Please click here to read further.

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/

GLCC boats gather at Barkers Island Marina in Superior, WI for the 2016 Rendezvous.  The brown water is the result of runoff from a severe storm on July 11 replacing the normally blue waters. Photo by Ken Van Dyke. 

04/27/2023 Corrected link to harbor report. JM