Boatnerd
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Headquarters | Port Huron, Michigan, U.S. |
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Region | Great Lakes |
Website | https://boatnerd.com/ |
The boatnerd corporation, a registered not for profit corporation, circulates information about vessels that ply the
Services
The organization holds annual festivals, at sites of interest to those interested in maritime commerce on the Great Lakes. The Globe and Mail profiled boatnerd when the 2008 festival was held in a shipyard in
The organization is large enough to maintain an office in Port Huron, Michigan, overlooking the confluence of the St Clair and Black Rivers.[3][4] The site went online in 1995, and became a registered not for profit corporation in 2006, under the name Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping Online.[2]
The organization provides unusual prizes through fund-raising raffles.[5] Various lake freighters were built with an "owner's suite". These suites are rarely used today, but the organization has been able to convince shipping companies to make cruises on board a working lake freighter, in the owner's suite, available to donors. 76 donors have won Great Lake freighter cruises.
Recognition
When
The organization was profiled by The Globe and Mail in 2008.[10]
Travel writer Bob Boughner, reporting in the Chatham Daily News, in December 2014, that "The average person, like myself, would have no idea where the ships were headed or what they were carrying if it wasn't for a relatively new organization headquartered in Port Huron, Mich., known as BoatNerd.com."[11]
References
- Fort Wayne Daily News. Archived from the originalon April 10, 2014.
- ^ a b "Campaign for boatnerd". Boatnerd. Archived from the original on May 9, 2013.
- ^ a b "Visit the Maritime Center at Vantage Point!". Acheson Ventures. Archived from the original on July 28, 2013. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
- ^ "World Headquarters at Vantage Point, Port Huron, Michigan". Boatnerd. Archived from the original on May 9, 2013. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
- ^ "Cruise the Great Lakes on a Working Freighter". Boatnerd. Archived from the original on September 7, 2013. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
- ^ Murray, James (November 9, 2013). "Lake Superior Storm Claimed Edmund Fitzgerald: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". netnewsledger. Archived from the original on November 21, 2013.
- Buffalo News. Archived from the originalon September 23, 2010. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
- ^ Lee, Don (September 26, 2014). "Maumee River busy with new project, freighter action". Toledo Free Press. Toledo, Ohio. Archived from the original on November 10, 2014. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
- ^ "Despite the name, this website is for anyone but nerds". Daily Tribune. April 25, 2010. Retrieved June 22, 2015.
- ^ Patrick White (September 26, 2008). "Nerds ahoy". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Archived from the original on November 21, 2013.
- ^ Bob Boughner (December 5, 2014). "Travel writer finds contentment on St. Clair River 3". Chatham Daily News. Archived from the original on August 15, 2015.