Angèle and Jim Passe are the newly appointed Deputy Port Captains for Port Superior/Pikes Bay (S-192.5) on the south shore of Lake Superior, across from the Apostle Islands. They live in Minneapolis, and started sailing together on Lake Calhoun, a small city lake in 1971.

From generation to generation, the history of GLCC continues on...
Edward “Ted” Youngs had been Port Captain with GLCC since 1996 and has recently become Deputy Port Captain of Wiarton, Ont. (GB-12), passing the torch of Port Captain on to his daughter Kathryn and son-in-law Harald Braun.
Harald’s passion for sailing began about 30 years ago when he took his White Sail Dinghy Sailing Course at Conestogo Lake, near Kitchener, Ont. Please click here to read more.

Great Lakes Marine Weather Guru and GLCCSchool weather instructor Mark Thornton recently created several new climatology pages on his marine weather company's web site. To view the more detailed post about this analysis with links to each Great Lake click HERE. To look at a sample analysis for Lake Huron click Huron.

Fred Collins is GLCC's newly appointed Port Captain for Michigan City, Ind. (M-28). Let's give him a warm welcome!
When his family moved to the shore of Lake Michigan, Fred Collins, age 14, built his first boat. It was an 11-foot kayak. With that boat, he set about exploring the Lake Michigan shoreline east of Gary, Ind. During college he learned sailing on a Sailfish, the smaller sister to the Sunfish, and resolved to own a boat for overnight or longer trips. Please click here to read further.

We can all cite innumerable examples of radio abuse by people keying their mic without first learning VHFbasics. Plus the potential life-saving capabilities of VHF Digital Selective Calling (DSC), not to mention its convenience, seem to remain a mystery to many. Today's issue of Sail Magazine's electronic publication addresses both of those subjects. The article is short and well worth a read by both captain and crew.

Newly appointed Port Captains of Thompson Island, Ont. (S-136.5) Dave and Colleen Wray live in Buffalo, Minn., and currently sail out of Port Superior in Bayfield, Wis. Since meeting 16 years ago, they have enjoyed sailing together. Dave is originally from Thunder Bay, Ont.; Colleen from southwestern Minnesota. They look forward to serving as Port Captains for Dave’s home area of Thompson Island in Canada. Click here to continue reading.

Let's give a warm welcome our newley appointed Port Captains (from Deputies) Paul and Paula Lundberg, for Bayfield, Wis. (S-192). They have lived in Bayfield, Wis. for the past 12 years, after having lived in many other attractive locations. During most of that time, sailing has been their main summer activity. Click here to read more.

Coincident with Earth Day BoatUS made its Clean Boating course available free. For more information and links to register click HERE.

​We are saddened to report the loss of Port Captain (Ret) David A. Jeffries.  David was a long term member of the GLCC serving as Port Captain of Rocky River from 2005-2012.  He was an avid single-handed trailer sailor, taking his Catalina 22, WYNDANCER to many GLCC events.  He was found frequently in the North Channel during the summer.  He was the proud recipient of the Commodore's Award at the 2014 Leamington Rendezvous.  As he said, he sailed up I75 at 70 MPH bringing his boat from Florida for the distinct purpose of attending the Rendezvous. Later he attended the Wilderness Rally at Turnbull Island and the Georgian Bay Rally at Keyhole.  He died on April 9 in Florida spending his last hours comfortably with his son.  There are no immediate services planned but a memorial service is expected to be held this summer on Lake Erie.

The Lake Michigan Carferry, SS Badger, will install a new conveyor system this spring to transport ash from the boiler to retension units on the cardeck of the ferry.  This will put the Badger in compliance with the EPA mandate to stop discharging coal ash into the lake before sailing season this year. The Badger is the last coal-fired steamship operating in the U.S.  See article here.