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The two Port Huron race courses allow for maximum participation from yachts ranging in size from 26 feet (7.9 m) to more than 80 feet (24 m). In 2015 they allow a new minimum of 24 feet (7.3 m) to compete. Allowing Target Practice and Solvo to be the first Cal25s to participate and complete the race.
A US Port of Entry was established at the location in 1836, when a license to provide commercial ferry service between Port Huron and what then was known as Port Sarnia. The license was issued to a Canadian man named Crampton who operated a sailboat. In the 1840s, a man named Davenport, also from Port Sarnia, operated a pony-powered vessel ...
Near the center, the bridge rises in an arc to provide 65-foot (20 m)-high clearance for boat passage. The remainder of the bridge is considerably closer to the water surface. The new bridge does not cross Pigeon Key. The total length of the new bridge is actually 35,862 ft (10,931 m) or 6.79 miles (10.93 km), and is shorter than the original.
Johnathan Hogan, Port Huron Times Herald July 20, 2024 at 5:01 PM More than 300 sailboats packed into the Black River to join the 100th Port Huron-to-Mackinac Island Sailboat race on July 20, 2024.
The bridge officially achieved its 100 millionth crossing exactly 40 years after its dedication, on June 25, 1998. [1] The 50th anniversary of the bridge's opening was celebrated on November 1, 2007, in a ceremony hosted by the Mackinac Bridge Authority at the viewing park adjacent to the St. Ignace causeway. [1]
Cars travel south through downtown Port Huron on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, on Huron Avenue. Part of a state throughway, the Michigan Department of Transportation will reconstruct the roadway from ...
The ship was 10 yards (9.1 m) away from the bridge before the tugboats were able to get the Tashmoo secured again. [6] The ship was eventually repaired. On June 18, 1936, the Tashmoo struck a submerged rock as it was leaving Sugar Island. The ship was able to dock in Amherstburg, Ontario, and be evacuated before it sank in 18 feet (5.5 m) of ...
The Ironton’s captain and six sailors clambered into a lifeboat but it was dragged to the bottom before they could detach it from the ship in a 1894 disaster. Long-lost ship found in Lake Huron ...