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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Author's adventure on Island of Doom

February 21, 2011

Onboard Persistence, the author sailed past the Island of Doom and met a new adventure.
Escape from the Island of Doom won a third place editorial award in Boating Writers Interntional's 2010 writing contest. This article that appeared in the Spring Ensign magazine was excerpted from a chapter that originally appeared in my book, Wake of the Green Storm: A Survivor's Tale.

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