This Great Lakes Boat Blog is a presentation of Filer Credit Union, with offices in Manistee, Ludington and Bear Lake, www.filercu.com and the Mason County Historical Society’s Port of Ludington Maritime Museum, ludingtonmaritimemuseum.org, located at 217 S. Lakeshore Dr., Ludington. By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief STURGEON BAY, Wis. — Late in the evening on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, the articulated tug/barge Undaunted/Pere Marquette…
Great Lakes History Log is presented by Filer Credit Union with offices in Manistee, Ludington, East Lake, and Bear Lake and the Mason County Historical Society, which operates the Port of Ludington Maritime Museum, Historic White Pine Village and the Rose Hawley Archives in downtown Ludington. Part 3: S.S. Wisconsin By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief The last four months of 1929…
Part 6 By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief LUDINGTON — Bernard “Bunny” Robertson, Bjoruin “Lindy” Johnson, Ernest Barth, John Bissell, Bruce Masse, Gregg Andersen, Dean Hobbs, Kevin Fitch. Those are just some of the men who have been the masters of the S.S. Badger, the last of a long line of car ferries based out of Ludington. In 2023, another captain joined…
By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief LUDINGTON — Boat watchers were in for a treat Friday as the historic tug Olive L. Moore and its paired barge, Menominee visited the Port of Ludington to deliver road aggregate to the Rieth-Riley Construction dock. The Olive L. Moore was built as the John F. Cushing in 1928 by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co. in Manitowoc,…
LUDINGTON — The S.S. Badger’s Friday, Oct. 10 sailing has been cancelled due to weather conditions on Lake Michigan. Today’s Lake Michigan weather forecast is calling for south-southwest winds 18 to 24 knots (21 to 28 mph) becoming west in the afternoon with gusts reaching as high as 30 knots (34 mph); waves of 7 to 10 feet, occasionally reaching…
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