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Annual St. Clair River Closures
Sunday, July 26 Sunday, August 16
This closure applies to ALL Although it is an unsanc-
non-commercial vessel traffic.
The Coast Guard will establish a tioned, non-permitted
safety zone in front of the City of
St. Clair from 11am-6pm for the event, the anual Port Huron
Offshore Races. There could be
temporary closures on Saturday to Marysville “Float Down”
from 11am-6pm during boat test-
ing. Boater’s can contact the Coast will cause the St. Clair Riv-
Guard on VHF-FM Channel 16.
er to be closed between
these cities for ALL vessel
traffic from 11am-8pm.
Brother & Sister fall fishing mistaken for the letter one and that is why we were Mich. for short, not MI.
around the Shipping Channel
we use MC. Now one more caveat to know … so,
I thought this made sense so my first if you have a federally documented vessel,
thought was to look up Wisconsin (WI for it is recommended you show your vessel
the post office); this theory held
true, they use WS. I then thought Have always wondered.... Does the
about Colorado, since Colorado is location of your house count as a
CO (could be mistaken for a C and “Port of Call?”
a “zero” right?) and yes for boats
it is CL. How about Hawaii? Yes!
Post office is HI but for boats is
Why are the Michigan HA. Unfortunately the theory did
Registration Numbers on
Boats an MC not an MI not hold true.
like our postal zip code?
There are several other states
Haven’t you been curious why our Mich-
igan boat registration is an MC not an MI. that have different boat registration
I think I may be the only one since I’ve
looked this up on the internet many times abbreviations than the US postal
over the years but never found a good an-
swer. Not long ago someone mentioned code. Any guesses? (Good time
that possibly the “I” in Michigan could be
here to quiz your crew)….. The
Big Yacht Traveling Thru
other states are California (CF),
Delaware (DL), Kansas (KA),
Mississippi (MI… guess they took
our abbreviation), Massachusetts (MS), Ne- name and your hailing port (city & state).
braska (NB), and Washington (WN). Abbreviations for both city and state are
The Federal Boating Act of 1958 di- acceptable, as long as they are recognized
rected that the U.S. Coast Guard develop by the “U.S. Post Office.” Go figure.
and administer a uniform numbering sys- As a side note to any Canadians who
tem for all of the states and further allowed actually read this entire article…. First…
for statewide registration systems. The thank you! So, why do you have 0’s or O’s
U.S. post office did not standardize state in your zip codes? I never know if it’s a
abbreviations until the introduction of the zero or an “o” when typing things on the
zip code system in 1963, five years later. internet. Please tell me the secret… al-
Back in those days, some will remember ways a zero or and o??
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