Here are the previous posts.

The 1980 Innisfree works the Chicago River, but it has New England roots.

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The rest of the boats in this post work in the waters around Mackinac Island.  Anna May is Wisconsin-built, 1947.

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Felicity is a Shepler’s Ferry boats.  For a history of the business, click here.

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Straits of Mackinac II is a 1969 Blount product. The Arnold family has been in the ferry business here since 1878.

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LaSalle dates from 1983.

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Huron is Erie PA built, 1955, and the oldest vessel working for the Arnold fleet.

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Joliet dates from 1993.   For many more Michigan ferries, click here.

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And to close out today, we’re back at Innisfree, maybe named for the W. B. Yeats poem.   Here Innisfree passes the footprint-gone-wild for the now-dead Spire project.

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All photos here by Will Van Dorp.