At the Fort Lauderdale (FL)International Boat Show, Marlin Bree takes a rest beside some of the boats featured at the world's biggest boat show.
Helmer Aakvik "The Old Man and the Inland Sea" survived an epic ice storm on Superior in his 17-foot open skiff.
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a storm of mystery on Nov. 10, 1975 with all hands and now rests in more than 500 feet of cold Lake Superior water.
Persistence is towed behind the 1992 Suzuki Sidekick. Here Loris and I are on are way to Grand Portage, MN, along Superior's north shore.I'll be sailing Superior's northernmost arc.
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Bree's Blog on Boatbuilding & Other StuffYou are what you work withMarch 10, 2010
One of the first things you've got to do when building a boat is decide what you want to work with: concrete, steel, aluminum, fiberglass or wood. Of these, the ones least likely to be satisfying to work with are the first two: steel and concrete. Both are likely to be lead sleds in the briny. For me, the jury is out on aluminum. Glass boats abound and almost indistinguishable one from another. That leaves wood. Guess what I built my own Persistence out of?
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