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Lake Superior Journal: Setting Life’s Course on the Ship Corsair
Oh is a letter and zero is a number. If you don’t say them correctly and clearly, things might go wrong for your shipmates and your ship.
May 10, 2012 by Cap't Tom Mackay in Superior Notes (1 Comments)
Welcome to the Big Lake: Born to Be Mild
My old Red Flash came out of the basement in honor of our story about “Looping the Lake” on the back of a motorcycle. The trike looks pretty worse for wear - a torn seat and rust spots. I expect that I’d look similar after 40 years in our basement.
Mar 15, 2012 by Konnie LeMay in Superior Notes
Welcome to the Big Lake: Breaking Up Is Nice to Do
Welcome to the Lake - Prevailing sentiment is that Up North we love spring so much because winter seems endless. Not really. Here, spring, like all seven or eight of our individual seasons, has special charms. Water makes it so.
Mar 15, 2011 by Konnie LeMay in Superior Notes
Lake Superior Journal: Heading into a Good Wind
There is a 3- to 5-foot sea out here today. The northeast wind is holding steady, for now. But I don’t want to be out here in another hour or two. The seas will probably be over 6-foot by then.
Mar 24, 2012 by Stephen Dahl in Superior Notes (1 Comments)
Welcome to the Big Lake: The Good Harvest
Even here in the Northland’s short growing season, fall is the time to enjoy the harvest and to reflect on the seasons that brought us here.
Sep 22, 2011 by Konnie LeMay in Superior Notes
Welcome to the Big Lake: Living in a Weather Wonderland
Two big reasons why Lake Superior is not a good location for fair-weather friends: you’re going to spend a lot of the year friendless. and you’re going to miss some spectacular atmospheric disturbances.
Jan 20, 2012 by Konnie LeMay in Superior Notes
Lake Superior Journal: Our Cloud Bay
We weren’t looking for a vacation home, but were curious enough to call the owners and arrange to see this coastal inlet in Ontario about which we knew nothing.
Jul 15, 2008 by Donn Larson in Superior Notes
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Lake Superior Journal: Perk's Floating Forest
An avid birder, Captain J.P. "Perk" Perkins decided not to let his career as a ship captain interfere with his passion for viewing birds.
Jan 18, 2011 in Superior Notes
Lake Superior Journal
What a privilege to write this article. Jim Marshall was a great friend and I don't think I ever mi...
Cap't Tom Mackay | Lake Superior Journal: Setting Life’s Course on the Ship Corsair
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Nelson T. French | Duluth Dylan Fest 2012
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This is so interesting to me, and I have spent some time in boats so I can relate a bit, too. Than...
Linda | Lake Superior Journal: Heading into a Good Wind
Pictures
Really nice pictures of the Falls.. Whatever happened with the fires way up there ??
SellFish | Picturing the Big Lake - April 2012
Titanic Article
Thanks for the Titanic article--I am the family historian for the Maude Sincock Roberts family and ...
Carol Schwab | Lake Superior’s Titanic Ties