SOO LOCKS, MI - A U.S. Coast Guard cutter had to zip into action on New Year’s Eve after a badly positioned buoy led to a traffic jam of freighters just below the Soo Locks. BoatNerd News reported the ...

The Soo Locks officially open Friday, March 22, at 6 p.m. in Sault Ste. Marie, MI. and locals and people from far away are excited. This is earlier than the scheduled 12:01 a.m. March 25 opening. For ...

The Soo Locks officially open this Friday at 6 p.m. in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan — and people are pumped. This year's opening is earlier than the scheduled 12:01 a.m. March 25 opening. Those fans of ...

It was back in kindergarten when Kirk Brust's love for boats began. "My interest in ships began many decades ago when I was in Kindergarten. There was a builder’s area in a corner of the room where ...

"The Boatnerd Picnic actually got its start around 1998. It was an outgrowth of the website, boatnerd.com. People thought it would be fun to meet some of these folks in the real world," said Know Your ...

MANISTEE – Several Great Lakes freighters and other smaller vessels wade through the Manistee River Channel each year to bring materials to factories along Manistee Lake. Of these, the following are ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man who was a freighter shipmate has died in an accident aboard a 1,000-foot freighter along northwest Indiana’s Lake Michigan shoreline. Richard Gray of ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man who was a freighter shipmate has died in an accident aboard a 1,000-foot freighter along northwest Indiana’s Lake Michigan shoreline. WWTV-TV reports that 35 ...

The Soo Locks are a bucket list destination for any Boatnerd, fans of freighters that ply Great Lakes waters. So it'd be easy to think Tom Soeltner, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Detroit District, Lock ...

Want to watch the St. Clair River Classic Offshore powerboat races, but don't want to deal with the crowds? Now there's an option to catch some of the action without even leaving your home. A new ...

DETROIT – A large freighter ran aground in the Detroit River near Grosse Ile on Wednesday morning, according to reports. The shipping industry news site Boatnerd reported that the Harvest Spirit ran ...

Each year in Duluth, countless visitors pause to watch ships big and small pass beneath the famous Aerial Lift Bridge. Many gaze until the boat passes, then peruse the Lake Superior Maritime Visitor ...