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MILLER MARINA GAS PAGE

Family owned

since 1934

BOAT CLASSES - On the Water!
- LET’S GO! PET FRIENDLY! Quaint & safe family environment Freedom Boat Club has option of both weekend or
Learn How to Drive a Boat
EVERYTHING AT ONE PLACE...
weekday training.
Enhance Your Skills
All training is done on the
Fast, friendly, reliable services!
Freedom Boat Club Lake St.
been providing “hands on”
Clair boats using a single
with 24-hour video survelliance
training for members and
outboard. According to the
last year expanded this offer
Ethanol free fuel
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to anyone looking to learn.
Safety on the water while
driving is not hard to learn -
GAS / Pumpout
GET READY Hoist Wells/Launch Ramp Winterizing/Fiberglass and is especially important
when there is a weekend with
BEER / WINE / BAIT
significant traffic. I’m not
sure as of this writing what
the price is for 2024, howev-
Engine & Trans Repair
Rack Storage - WIFI
er, when I was told the price
Deep Water Slips
Clean Restrooms/Showers
to take the “on water” class
586-771-9000 ≈ www.millermarina.com
last season I thought it was
24770 E. Jefferson ▪ St. Clair Shores ▪ South of 10 Mile Road
very inexpensive with the
Lake St. Clair Hazard dom Boat Club. The If SUDDENLY one of Boat Safety Laws - No
Team‘s goal is to help
these obstructions was arms or limbs should be
Mitigation Team make our lake safe for floating in front of you, outside of the boat while
all boaters. Besides
obvious underwater would you swerve on im- underway. All passen-
In 2022, the Lake St. Clair Hazard pulse? Would you come gers must be in designed
Mitigation Team was launched in as- floating trees that oc- to a fast stop? Reminder: seating while underway.
sociation with Lake St. Clair’s Free- casionally enter our
waterways after large
amount s
of rainfall, the
team regularly
posts shallow
areas - which
may become
important if
the trend of
our cyclical completed since their start. To warn
lower water levels con- of probably the most serious threat
tinue this season. Just to boaters, because of this group’s
because you see water, persistent reaching out to the Coast
doesn’t mean it is deep. Guard, there was the addition / instal-
Freedom Boat Club Lake St. Clair Captains, Two most pressing hazard lation of danger zone markers at the
Volunteers, and owner Steven Dobreff cleanup mission’s were 2000’ foot jetty wall entrance area to
the South Channel at Gull
Island from Lake St. Clair
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Volunteer Kelly last season
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