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End of the Lighthouse Season

on September 04, 2023

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This article, written by Kim Kevin and published by Cruising World magazine on August 31, 2022, is reproduced here without permission and for Wayback blog friends and family only. For the original article and corresponding invitation to subscribe, please see here. Wisdom for the Ages As time marches on, different styles of boating can be appealing – especially in charter and bucket list destinations. By Kim Kavin | August 31, 2022 Lifelong sailors sometimes switch to power and charter a trawler to explore remote destinations from the Pacific Northwest to Alaska. Courtesy NW Explorations Jan Reyers tried to take it in stride when his father started calling him “my deviant son.” After all, his father had sailed until he was almost 70 years old, and Reyers had spent countless years sailing a Columbia 22 on Lake Superior. This was a family that lived by the wind. The mere thought of buying a boat without sails made Reyers, well, a wayward child. The thing is, Reyers wasn...

Returning to the Light

Researching Isle Royale history over this past winter, often from the notes and files of my writer and publisher father-in-law, enhanced memories of my time in Washington Harbor last summer. Living and walking among the cabins, fish houses, and boat houses of Washington and Barnum Islands, boat trips to the Rock of Ages lighthouse, and visits to the site of the shipwreck America brought some of that history to life for me. It was so enjoyable, rewarding, refreshing (read: cool), and informative (thanks to descendants of the Sivertson fishing family), that I'm returning again as a volunteer this year. The Rock of Ages Lighthouse Preservation Society (ROALPS) was desperate enough to ask me to run the Rock Hopper workboat again to move supplies and work crews back and forth to the lighthouse for another season. Plans were to "Paint the Rock" this season. Over the winter, as part of their fundraising, I wrote a couple of articles to support publicity efforts. One, A...

Back Again

The familiar roar of the two diesels on the Voyageur ferry boat brought a thin smile to my face as my hearing deteriorated. I like to sit right on top of the chromed steel checker plate engine housing since that's the warmest place on the boat during its two-hour trip to the Ozaagaateng, formerly Windigo, visitor center dock. That crossing can be cold. On this trip, the skies were clear, visibility was excellent, and the lake was calm. Perfect lighthouse viewing weather. But this time the Rock of Ages lighthouse looked different. It was a bright white, reflecting the sun and glowing on the horizon. In the past, folks remarked that it looked dull and dark, with a yellow tinge to the surface of the tower. What we saw on the Voyageur this time was a bit of freshly washed lighthouse, with its white paint freed from contamination. Evidence that the newly arrived contractor crew was successful in creating power with their generators, pumping water 100 feet up from the lake's surface,...

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