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t he Beaut y and
t he Beas t?
Day of “Raft Off”
The sunken ship I took these two shots -
“HARLOW I would easily take the bet
LORAN“ the guys below in the
is located near the west- “carefree” vessel
USED ENGINES/OUTDRIVES USED BOATS/TRAILERS ern end of the Middle had the most fun day.
ENGINE SWAPS SHRINK WRAP Channel, where it flows
into Lake St. Clair’s An-
OUTDRIVE REPAIR WINTERIZING chor Bay behind green
WE BUY UNWANTED BOATS marker buoy #13. The
wreck is clearly marked
JUNK BOAT DISPOSAL SERVICE on charts.
Full Line of Used Mercruiser • OMC • Cobra • Volvo Penta The wooden steam
barge, Harlow (154‘
Parts
Mercruiser • Volvo Penta • OMC • Crusader x 34‘4“ X 10‘7“), was
launched as the Pres-
196 Northbound Gratiot, Mt. Clemens, MI ton in 1891 at Green
BoatPartsnMore@gmail.com • BriansBoats.com Bay, WI and renamed WHY ARE MARKERS
586-770-9431 in 1902. IMPORTANT
In 1926, when the
old ship had outlived its continued from Page 6 .... cycles
usefulness, it was sunk of high and low water levels roughly
as a break wall instead every 20 years. No one knows why,
White Brown’s of being scrapped. The moon, sun, our orbit changing around
Middle Channel
hull and prop remain.
Octagon Cottage Bar BOATER BEWARE the sun or moon every 20 years??
House all by itself This wreck is only a foot There are safe routes to ALL of
our favorite destinations, so no big
or so below the surface,
if you’re checking this
out be sure to proceed worries, but what is important though
is everyone needs to re-educate
with caution. Thank you themselves on where the hazards
for the photos & story lie - which depends on the draft of
Shipwreck Trevor Walczy - your vessel. Which gets me back to
Drone Shots the markers in the middle of the lake
which lead into the Middle Chan-
nel. As the water levels drop, there
Octagon House - The Freedom Boat Club funded is quite a large sandbar between
“Lake St. Clair Mitigation Team” removed an old Goose Bay and the entrance to the
tree that had been a water hazard in one of the Middle Channel. You’ll need to watch
cuts here for a long time - THANK YOU captains, your depth finder to stay in 3’ of wa-
divers, and crew at Freedom Boat Club!!! You may ter “b” (map right). There also used
follow their FB page for 2023 hazard updates to be a small sandbar just off those
or LakeStClairr. markers that we used to anchor and
swim on “c”. We tried to find it a
couple of years ago and could not, so
hopefully that has naturally eroded
and has washed away. Another one
that comes to mind is leaving Lake
St. Clair Metropark heading south.
The HARLOW LORAN There used to be a sandbar off the
point of the park there, quite a ways
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